Consider a bird.
A real Keatsian fowl.
Something that can warble
from dusk to dawn,
a constant warbler.
Now what I’m going to do
is take the bird
and touch the tip of my pinky
to its anus,
apply a little pressure.
What we want to observe
is the effect of this pressure
on the warble:
does the pitch drop?
does it do so continuously?
or does it stay constant till a break point?
Warbling and the pressure could be
completly independent.
Maybe the pressure has no effect?
But, we want answers to these questions.
That is why we perform these tests.

Consider an orchard.
An orchard, right?
So that’s like love.
And I’m going to take
one single tree
in that orchard
and I’m going to take
the heel of my hand,
ignoring the constraints
of the hand,
and I’m going to push down
on the top of the tree,
splitting the limbs
all the way down
to the root of the trunk.

1. Assume the perspective of natural selection.
2. Consider the human.
3. Observe the almost constant infighting for most of the species’s history.
4. Observe the escalating capacity to inflict damage.
5. Extrapolate from these facts to the extinction of the species. Presume this.
6. The human species fails to adapt to its environment (internal or external).

Q: Does the species suffer from an excess of intelligence or a deficiency?