The X-Files episode we watched last night dares to ask the question: If there were to be changes in the human species, why would they be evolutionary?
Look at changes in human societies: Almost whenever we see a major departure from the normative, it is for the worse. Modern societies have been most notable when they became much colder, crueller, and more brutal than societies before. Nazi Germany, communist Cambodia, the “ethnic purges” of eastern Europe and of Africa — these are human societies horribly devolved, not progress.
And so why would change in the human individual be different from change in human societies?
Evolution is the scriptures of Progressivism: it is both their unshakable proof and their source of inspiration. Who of us hasn’t heard evolution nerds speculate eagerly about when humankind will grow gills or wings or expanded mental power? But what if, instead, as in the episode last night, humankind were to grow hibernatory, incapable of emotion, and cannibalistic? Would this not better match our observations of human society?
Human change of the sorts we can observe, in these modern times, is almost always very different from that prophesied by those faithful to Progressivism.
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The real place to look for evolution is where selection is. Any time you read a statistic that “x percent of group y die young/don’t have children”, if x is high and y is based in genetics, that’s where selection is happening. I don’t think anyone even in evolutionist circles thinks this way systematically though, I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s too depressing.
That is where culling would be happening, at any rate.
(Oh, Erica, I hope I didn’t seem as though I don’t find your comment profound.)
My professor just told me that (according Dr. Waltter Bortz):
Historically, for humans to survive was to be active enough to escape your predators and to catch your prey.
Effects of agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions have caused us to suffer structural and functional body disuse and inactivity…which puts us at risk for:
-Principle of ‘least effort’ culture
-Disuse which depletes our reserve capacities, rendering us susceptible to disease
-Disuse which also results in lack of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness
So I guess Dr. Bortz (and my teacher) would agree with you in thise case……………..
And I would say he’s telling you a lot of rot. To be human has never been only to survive, and such rot is a large part of what’s shaping us into the lazy brutes we’re becoming.
(Also, chaps like Dr. Bortz will have to run a couple of ultramarathons naked before I’ll feel even a sideways respect for their chatter.)
=)
Do you want to know what I wrote in my notes next to the part about Dr. Bortz’s theory?
I wrote:
Ha Ha Ha!!!