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When I talk about humans being meant or designed to live a certain way, I mean by evolution. Evolution is the change of a species over time--it does not have a
by meche 19y ago
When I talk about humans being meant or designed to live a certain way, I mean by evolution.
Evolution is the change of a species over time--it does not have a conciousness in order to "mean" to do things. The related reasoning in the article appears to infer the superiority of the last 10,000+ years of "hunter-gatherers" over the last few thousand years of larger organizations with managers for a specific purpose (building pyramids, aquaducts, etc.)--but these large public works projects are in fact the very hallmarks of the advancement of evolution. I'm not saying that we were "meant" to work in large organizations, but it is hard for your article to that conclusion using evolution as a reason. Indeed, the concept of evolution would seem to contradict your point. By definition, your ancient bands of hunter-gatherers were less evolved than we technologists are today, and today the large organizations (from government to google) reign supreme...therefore, large organizations are more "evolved"...
- pg 19y agoFor large public works projects to reflect the advancement of actual biological (rather than cultural) evolution, they'd have to affect people's chance of having descendants. There may have been some of that. Maybe people who could tolerate organization into armies have been exterminating people who couldn't. But the time during which that has been taking place is pretty short by evolutionary standards.