The rain in Spain is mainly plain

Drunken driving is a crime….I’m quite unsure why people drink and drive when they could be better off just drinking.

Coming to alcohol addictions, I admire people who have successfully kicked past addictions. (I've stayed off smoking since Feb this year, and am better for it). They’ve probably extended their life by two years, and significantly enhanced the quality of the life.

Alternatively, one could sue the tobacco and alcohol companies for ending up in this condition and spend the money on Chivas Regal and Havana cigars, in which case you have instantly enhanced the quality of your life.

Which makes me wonder about the choices of "quality" that people make. I'm not particularly interested in a prosaic, metaphysical definition of "quality", that's for long-winded essayists and boring coffee-table conversations. Am only curious about how we see it and act on it.

Let’s imagine for a moment that we’re little aliens flying through space investigating various life-forms on various planets. Little pieces of rock orbiting around bigger pieces of gas. Like senior management.

Let’s imagine that we’ve twisted and turned through a worm-hole and landed up a few thousand miles outside of a blue planet. You observe that one particular set of creatures repeatedly fight each other on issues not related to territory or honour but on the notion that God exists, and God exists in different hues for different sets of creatures.

Now you need to document this; just like 75% of all people in those funny-looking cubicles spend their time doing….documenting. What would you document? That all such creatures fundamentally possess quality, and at a broad level there isn’t much to choose one quality from another? But then, you wouldn’t travel so far just to arrive at generalisms.

You wouldn’t, so you would decide that you must report back home that different forms of quality exists.

So you take out your long telescope and examine again.

Let’s see now, these creatures spend a lot of time together. However, the size and type of structure varies from place to place...maybe if we try to understand how the structure is formed, we might gain an insight into the underlying "quality".

What choices do these creatures make in organizing themselves? Similarity of purposes? The output doesn't suggest that this is true, as people in the same organization seems to be working at cross - purposes.

So then, it must be something different, but yet possess a certain quality of consciousness.

Perhaps social? But social qualities are a little more evolved, because a certain set of creatures lives in terrain that is totally unhospitable. Could they be biological in origin?

Well yes, this creature used to be a hunter-gatherer, and then teamed up with other hunter-gatherers. And then two of these groups went to war with each other. But they didn't stop there, but continued to evolve further forms of intelligence. That would be the next level of quality.

So then, homo econimus came to life. Brilliant lot, this organization. Except that "wealth" has erupted into free time, which these creatures utilize to leave for home to be with a far more pleasant looking creature with longer hair and interesting curves, and two short creatures.

It would now appear that this creature has surpassed all previous qualities and now seems to value something else. They call it spirituality. Some even write about it on a medium called a "Blog". Funny lot!

These creatures seem to have an innate ability to choose values and morals, and attract others to these values and morals. Perhaps that's what keeps them going.

Funny lot, these creatures; worth watching for some time. But then, this universe is lovely, dark and deep, and there are worm-holes to leap....

Yawn…must tell seniors back home….some of these creatures are irrational…they divide 22 by 7.