Will to form

Accidental progress

Many discoveries were brought about by chance and from unintended results seen during research. Serendipity. Scientists found something unexpected happening within the things they were toying with. In such cases, they would divert their attention to a new cause. This is akin to the way species progress. The accidentally improved varieties thrive in the environment they inhabit. Evolution is punishing, most evolutionary steps lead nowhere. For every species that is around today a thousand have come and gone. There is far more failure than success.

Viruses change quickly and each one is like a key trying to get through various locks. The ones that open the pathways spread and multiply. The ones that are barred simply fade away. If one out of the thousands of variants happens upon the right combination through luck, they will then go on to multiply further, breaking all the defences in the process. They are not consciously clever. There is no objective or purpose behind evolution. Each mutation changes the species slightly, giving it a different prospect of flourishing. The virus doesn’t care about making you ill nor does it try to. It is just a toxin that exists in a more elaborate form compared with a whole bunch of chemical nasties. Destruction and annoyance are part and parcel of the bigger system and vital to its continuance.