There’s a thing with siblings. If you read Prince Harry, you know that the second child is called “the spare.” But what if you have more, say 7, seven siblings. You see siblings share a great deal of DNA. We are essentially different copies of each other. More and more I think of myself and my siblings as slightly different updates. There’s obviously version 1.0 the oldest. Then of course 2.0, 3.0 all the way to 8.0. Not so much that we are literal upgrades, just different versions. From a hereditary perspective depending on situations 8 different chances for the genetic line to continue. There’s obviously much more than that, and we are not clones, at least in this iteration, although twins do occur in the next updated version. At this point, we have survived our progenitors. Maybe having achieved our genetic purposes we are just waiting to see which of our software crashes first? Which model outsurvives the others? Although we like to think we are so different, anyone from another planet or country can easily point us out as clearly Americans. I’m sure they can point out many more similarities. We are after all just slightly different, in the big scheme of things, genetic copies of the original source material.

© by Daniel DeMarle 6/10/24