Kanye West, Donald Trump and the Darwin Awards
There should be an equivalent of the Darwin Awards for those politicians who are basically compromising democratic evolution
09 July 2020 - 05:00
You’ll have heard of the Darwin Awards, I’m sure, the accolades given to people who have killed themselves by doing something so unbelievably dumb that our overriding emotion is not sympathy, but gratitude that there’s no chance they can pass on their genes.
As the website describes it: "In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species’ chances of long-term survival."..
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