Fooling Darwin
2010-04-14
How much longer can we fool Darwin? According to the Origin of
Species, the process of natural selection should lead to a
continual improvement of the human breed. We should be
getting stronger, smarter and more resistant. Instead, our
educational systems are increasingly geared toward the least
common denominator, and our social and health systems are
designed to preserve the weak. Our faltering companies are
shielded from Darwinism by state subsidies that keep the weak
alive at the expense of the fit. Now even entire governments are
being kept on life support. According to Thomas Robert Malthus
and his Principle of Population, war, famine or disease should
wipe out perhaps hundreds of millions of people. In a sense, this
would be evidence that Darwin can be fooled temporarily, but
not permanently. But then maybe we're safe. After all, Darwinism
and Malthusianism are only theories.
[Czech Republic Greece]
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