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Civilization/society is, in a lot of ways, a human rejection of natural selection as the fundamental force driving our species's future. But evolution as a pro
by eximius 4y ago
Civilization/society is, in a lot of ways, a human rejection of natural selection as the fundamental force driving our species's future.
But evolution as a process, as much as we can ascribe these terms to a stochastic process, is inherently abelist and eugenicist? Like, that's what natural selection is.
Both the author's analysis and the reviewed paper are dumb.
- zozbot234 4y agoIt's just the same process of selection operating at a higher level. Not on genes, but on social systems and institutions. Thus e.g. Socialism was developed under the assumption that human nature itself could somehow be changed in the service of a collective goal, the "New Socialist Man". But this ultimately failed, and so Socialism was mostly abandoned. (What some call socialism today is more of a minor adjustment on capitalism, trying to improve its overall outcomes without central planning of all production activity.)