Ask anyone to define perfection and the simplest description of this vague concept won't be too far from the following: "A state of mind or a physical condition where imperfection is non-existent."
If I have to go back to our simian past (assuming you have no objection to the possibility that you once dangled from trees or roamed the plains hunting for anything to eat) that brings me to question why nature gave us just one opposable thumb on each hand. Would not two have been better? Perhaps 6 digits would be too much when we wrestle with a typewriter keyboard using six fingers. QWERTY would cease to exist and DFGHJK might take its place!
Assuming there was a missing link (to what one must ask) then there was no need for a tail, right? If that's true, how did we achieve balance as we learned to walk upright? Oh, the fluids in your ear took over the functions of the tail! And why not have four eyes instead of just two? Some insects have eyes that use many lenses (like the fly). Ah, that would be imperfect for us homos! Look at the fly - despite his having five thousand lenses in his eye he can't see my hand coming down on him! I know his trick - he takes off in a rearward direction so I aim two to three inches behind. And SWAT! He's flat as a pancake. If I don't soap my hands and rub vigorously, that'll be imperfection. And if I had more than two eyes I might be a more confused critter to be renamed "Homo confusius."
Fast forward to the real world. If I live in a society where I can't find a decent source of livelihood, that's imperfection. If I try and still fail to improve myself (because I'm lazy?) that's imperfection. If I elect a moron to public office, that's imperfection. If I protest the imperfections of the moron I elected into office (that's not imperfection) that's stupidity.
So where did imperfection start? It began from my inability to accept QWERTY because the Filipino alphabet has no "Q" and yet I spell my nationality with an "F" rather than a "P" when we have no "F" in our alphabet too. That's too much imperfection but it ought to make us think about the subject more deeply.
So, do we really need to be perfect? If the world were perfect, the weak will cease to exist, right? Wrong. If everything is perfect that would be an anomaly for we will be frozen into one condition - no forward nor backward movement. It's a status quo forever. Like the angels of old, we'll get bored and mount a rebellion!
In short, let the moron vote idiots into public office and let those crooks who get elected steal all they can and let the pseudo-intelligent ones mount protests and even go to the extent of rising in revolt! That will make life interesting. Let everyone be a movie star or a TV personality first before running for public office. It's a perfect preparation for a political career and the idiots who will vote for them are PERFECT patsies!
Long live Perfecto, Gregorio - a signatory to the 1935 Philippine Constitution!
I write this in memory of Gregorio Perfecto - signatory to the Constitution foisted on us by America. As member of the Supreme Court he's known more for his dissenting opinions than his agreeing with the majority. His wisdom ought to awaken Obama as well as Aquino: In Mercado v. People's Court (1948)... on search and seizure, he wrote: "May the government profit from an illegality, an unconstitutional act, or even a crime to serve its aims, including the loftiest? May justice be administered by making use of the fruits of a lawless action?"
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