quotas.

so i think ive figured something out today as i watched a nature show regarding an aging lion and its inability to keep up with the younger ones and hunt as many gazelle as before... what i learned is that our basic motivations are food and sex, but not in that order. its always sex above food.
the reason i say this, and ill come off as a bastard for saying it is that if we valued food more than sex, then we wouldnt have as many starving masses throughout the world (which would put very many christians out of charity work, since that is where they get the majority of it, well that and poor underdeveloped countries or poor ignorant tribes located in the middle of mainland nowhere and who really dont care about the modern world but the modern world has a slight interest in them, if nothing else for award winning national geographic pictures. but can you imagine the publicity if you had pictures of serengeti runners wearing nike shoes? or tibetan monks kneeling down on neiman marcus prayer mats? amazon tribesmen with the white ipod headphones?). they dont have food, but they do have sex. i know they do, not because its in pictures but because they have children, usually more than one. so despite the crippling starvation they are undergoing (but not voluntarily unlike models in la and teenage girls in the rest of the world who are training themselves to believe that food is the devil and who practice math by adding and subtracting calories and dividing out the amount of good/bad calories in everything from a salad, which they only eat if served with a special dressing that has 0 calories and tastes suspiciously like tap water but is recommended by their trainer cause he owns stock in the thinning of the world, to a stick of gum which they can only chew for so long because of atrophied jaw muscles due to the lack of chewing of real food) despite that, they still somehow find the energy and willingness to engage in reproduction. despite that i can only assume that they still at times get horny. therefore, if they have sex even facing the complete lack of food, food must take a second place to sex. so sex is king amongst our needs, otherwise, we wouldnt have nearly as many starving children as we do.
the interesting thing here is something ive noticed before but you cant help but think about it every now and then and keep from being amazed. somewhere right now, people are having sex. there are 6&1/2billion people. 50% women, 50% men. which means that right now people are engaging in the activity of creating more people. when that group of people are done, another group begins, so at all times and everywhere in the world there are people doing it. now since i am not currently doing it. it means that somebody else is doing it. hopefully we arent going in any kind of order because i lost my ticket to the big show, or if we are going by number thats even worse because i believe i was told once that my number is 1,752,498,167 which isnt coming up soon i dont think, or if it is i wonder how they will let me know. hopefully they just email me a time and a place so i can just show up.
then again, we may all have a quotient. only so much sex is allowed per person, which is why not everyone can be a pornstar, cause pornstars are just alloted a higher quotient of sex (there might be a loophole there because technically they are just working when they have sex, so it might not count as sex but as work. that wed have to take up with the sex administration, might be the census bureau since they are the ones that know how many people there are and if we are falling behind or not. they would be in the best position to tell us if we should be having more or less sex.) and priests are people who get a very low amount of sex "tokens." however, if people have quotients, what happens when someone doesnt fulfill their quota? do the rest of us get some extra sex because of it? and who gets priority on those tokens? for that matter could i gift some of my sex to a friend if i happen to find myself without a gift on their birthday or do i have to fill out paperwork for that? will the irs consider it tax deductible or do i pay tax on gifted sex? i think what it comes down to is that i think someone stole some of my sex, so do i file a report with the police? the irs? the census bereau or my local sex atm (which would be a prostitute i suppose, a convenient place to get some sex, but its not exactly the same as an atm, since you spend sex there, you dont get any to take home to the wife, unless you have a special relationship with the wife in which case you could take it back... but you can ask for clamydia, the clap, herpes, or any std cocktail combination you desire. but who really wants that?)
i need to get around to using my allotted amount of sex, it might go bad otherwise like moldy cheese, or perhaps its like quality wine (not that cheap type comes in boxes) and just gets better if i leave it out for a while...

what i used to do but find myself no longer able to do.

i used to be able to write.
i still can, in a mechanical sort of way. i think before i had more interesting phrases. i had a better flow as well. now, i can still write in that i can put letters together and make words and perhaps even a decent sentence. mostly though, i find myself just writing sentences worthy of an elementary school wall for english as a second language students. about sub-par sentences.
i also used to be able to do a handstand.

words.

ok. so we have millions and millions of words. whole books full of them, front to back and back to front and organized in neat little columns alphabetically or completely random messes of words in no apparent order, but we have them. some words have died though. others have simply matured and been given new meanings. but why?
i think, that possibly there is a institution somewhere located atop some mountaintop deepin a valley somewhere where they ponder and question words. and in certain cases have them eliminated by a crack international team of word spies. people skilled in the ability to eliminate and kill a word ( while engaging in sexy double entendras with leather bound dictionaries ) with but a single movement of their hand. deadly indeed.
but so, then these people have to decide which situations call for the retirement of a word ( such as what will eventually happen to the phrase "your mom" which as of this count has been killed about 548 times, only to reappear in the mouth of some young pipsqueek who recently discovered it hiding in his grandfathers attic amongst wwII memorabilia and who foolishly brings it back to the schoolyard with him. )and what words are suitable for a "reimagining," because they have been given the clearance to play god with the american language!
there is a rogue underground movement to challenge their undisputed authority over america, a movement led by one snoop dogg, who has in recent years introduced the notion of the -izzle, infuriariting the word-smiths. but the day of reckoning is coming, i tell you if anything is to happen to snoop, look no further than webster for your guilty party.
who comes up with new words? is there a commity? do people vote? is the president involved in someway or is this all left to the vicepresident? to whom do we entrust the sanctity of our language?

its really late, and i have a feeling that im trying to hard on this one.