I went to the internet to learn what the Nyancat was anyhow

The Nyancat is only  afew months old.  It is a result of one guy in california drawing a cat with a poptart body and a japanese woman and man putting a song of a cat together.  its compelling power cannot be denied

the poptart cat was made by request, so the artist did not himself imagine the cat and the poptart coming together, and without the poptart cat there would be no nynyanya song.  So this cooperative genius was entirely unplanned and uncoordinated

this whole episode tells me two things

1.  popculture is so pervasive the Balsz Horizon* is now about 6 months instead of 9 years

* (the Balsz Horizon is the point where I hear about something that already had its 15 minutes)

2. Homo sapiens has achieved gestalt, and the Overmind is retarded

in light of these circumstances a belief in teh triumph of individual achievement is meaningless and contraevolutionary.  It is time like Starfleet to abandon Earth to seek out new life and civilizations and argue it into tolerance!