Our Genes

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Our Genes

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Bugs Bunny looking absolutely unhinged in the communist propaganda poster aesthetic is exactly what your genes are doing right now. They don't care about your happiness, your career goals, or whether you want kids. They just want to replicate. That's it. That's the whole evolutionary game.

You think you're making rational decisions? Nope. Your genes are over here pulling strings like a puppet master, making you attracted to certain people, craving sugar and fat, and generally sabotaging your attempts at logical living. Richard Dawkins called us "survival machines" for our genes, and honestly, he wasn't wrong. We're basically just fancy gene transportation vehicles with delusions of free will.

The Soviet aesthetic really drives home the authoritarian vibes of genetic determinism. Your DNA is the ultimate dictator, and you're just along for the ride, comrade.

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