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Is there a scientific way to distinguish evolutionary biology from bourgeois ideology?
by viburnum 7y ago
Is there a scientific way to distinguish evolutionary biology from bourgeois ideology?
- Gatsky 7y agoI was waiting for the sedentary left to show up.
- viburnum 7y agoWe never log off.
- eeZah7Ux 7y agoI'm not sure about what you mean but a lot of completely made up "popular science" seems to be easily sold as evolutionary science. "Some people have longer ears than others. Maybe they were better able to hear predators and avoid them and therefore theirs genes spread further..."
- viburnum 7y agoYeah, so much of it is made up just so stories, and those stories usually flatter the ruling class. It’s fashionable for CEOs to work out, so of course there’s a story about how it’s evolutionary biology reason that makes people smarter or whatever. That article was pretty short on experimental evidence.
- Der_Einzige 7y agoLast I checked, Socialists were the ones who tried extremely hard to get everyone to be physically active. It was the Machismo Cuban Revolutionary who fought and won against decadent bourgeois ideology. Not the Sedentary Cuban Revolutionary...
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoI think it's more complicated than an association with any single broad ideological category. For instance, fascists tend to be very big on promoting physical fitness, presumably because it's a natural nexus between the obsessions with vitality and militarism.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post ideological flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html