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With the discovery of the mind, man underwent massive change. Instead of pursuing his own evolution, as he had done in the past, he started adapting the environment to his body and mind. Man's capacity for exploiting natural resources convinced him that he had reached perfection. He arrived at a state of self-infatuation that continues to this day.
The disturbing gap between mind and body increased. The consequences of this were: psychosomatic disorder, psychosis, neurosis (troubles unknown in the sub-human world), and increased apprehension and fear of pain, vulnerability, and death.
The result of man's self-infatuation has been also a progressive destruction of his own environment. Until recently, man has had an illusion that natural resources were inexhaustible. We realize now that much of the so-called progress of the present generation is at the expense of future generations.
Our ideas of progress and perfection can be explained by the uniqueness of our species. In the sub-human world the individual serves the species; the present generations living, and often sacrificing, for the future. In the human world, there is an après moi le déluge attitude - in men by conviction, in women by imitation of men.
An unnatural environment, the creation of man's mind, has produced an unnatural selection in our species. This unnatural selection generates unfit individuals.
"Man is the first species that can influence its further evolution. By therapeutic agents and techniques, he can ensure the survival of the less-than-fittest, and so frustrate the evolutionary process. After considering the moral and spiritual, as well as physical factors, this may be what he wishes to do. But it is essential that those involved in health care, political as well as medical, face the problem. At the moment it is not being faced at all," stressed Professor Paul Turner at the British Royal Society Congress of 1975.
The increase in population increases the number of the unfit. In any community this weak and vulnerable element, being more and more numerous, sooner or later, succeeds in imposing its ideology on the rest of the community. Political ideologies and economic policies, catering to the needs of the least fit, will one day create a gap between productivity and human needs, and that gap will be so large that the race could be annihilated - by famine, by epidemic, or by an unpredictable biological catastrophe.
The improvements in medicine and in social services, particularly since the beginning of this century, have accelerated the increase in world population. The world population, calculated at approximately 250 million at the end of the Roman Empire, had doubled by the middle of the seventeenth century. It took two centuries to double again, reaching one billion around 1850. Only a hundred years later the world population passed three billion. Now, the world population doubles every thirty-five years. Rebus sic statibus, without any further improvement in medicine or social services, in three hundred years we will have around 1,790 billion, and in five hundred years, around 114,680 billion people occupying an earth's surface of 54,469,928 square miles.
The population increase is due not only to the increase in the number of the unfit, but also to the increase of the young and the old. The rate of increase of the young and old can be deduced by the following: in 1800, in advanced countries, out of each 1000 live births, 480 reached the age of 20, and 210 reached that of 60. The figures for 1950, respectively, were 920 and 650.
We see, therefore, that an increase in population is mainly an increase in the number of the economically unproductive groups. The increasing size and need of the economically unproductive - the unfit, the old and the young - are an increasing burden to the economically productive.
With every day that passes these groups are growing farther and farther apart, each group having its own ideas, its own values, and often its own language. The factions within the social structure of the modern world are creating ever greater tension and strain.
"A sort of militant hysteria threatens our species, [and the hysteria] may lead us down, step by step, to a cruel and degenerate belligerence to a life which will have few interest beyond pain, hate and elementary lust, and few virtues except a Spartan endurance," wrote H. G. Wells before World War II, in his book A Short History of the World. The "militant hysteria" is clear evidence of the failure of man's mind to find a pattern of life which is in his interest and in that of his species.
Russian Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov explained even more clearly that man has failed to find a solution for the life of his species: "Civilization is imperiled by a universal thermonuclear war, a catastrophic hunger for most of mankind. . . . a spreading of mass myths that put entire peoples and continents under the power of cruel and treacherous demagogues, and destruction from the unforeseeable consequences of swift changes in the conditions of life on our planet."
Can it be that man's last chance is, once again, woman?
Can the human female, who once saved the fallen ape in the savannah now save god-man, fallen with the omnipotence of his mind? Can she save him from the new savannah in which he finds himself now, more frightened than ever before, frightened by his most dangerous enemy, himself? Is her instinct for the preservation of the species strong enough to prevent this catastrophe?
History, alas, shows that woman's instinct for adaptation is stronger than her instinct for the preservation of the species.
When the adolescent male rebelled by taking the dominating role and inventing abstract ideas and beliefs, woman adapted herself to the absurd world man had created. Proof of woman's instinct of adaptation being stronger than her instinct for the preservation of the species lies in the fact that never in the history of mankind have we seen women rebelling against their husbands' decisions to send their children off to war, to be killed for an abstract belief.
We are now witnessing a sad spectacle. Around the world, men, who have no instinct for the preservation of the species, are discussing birth control in abstract terms. Women, who do possess this instinct and should, therefore, be entitled to deal with this problem, are not rebelling against this. Their instinct of adaptation is stronger than their instinct for the preservation of the species.
What is even more tragic for the human species is that defects in woman's instinct of adaptation do not favor her instinct for the preservation of the species. On the contrary, when woman recognizes defects in her instinct of adaptation, she starts to imitate man. She tries to be equal to man. She starts to defend her vulnerability by adopting the abstract beliefs or ideologies invented by man to protect his defects. She even goes so far as to imitate another of man's attitudes, for she uses arrogance and aggression to defend her adopted ideologies. Being imitations, these postures are often more extreme than those in man.
By imitating man, woman has also succeeded in imitating one of man's most harmful vices. Note these passages from a report of January 1976, on "Female alcoholics" in England: "There are many indications that the number of women alcoholics becoming apparent, or presenting for help, has increased since the first report. Thirteen years ago, with the first figures from alcoholism information centres, it was apparent that the incidence was 1 female for every 7 or 8 male alcoholics; three years ago the ratio had dropped to 1 female for every 4 or 5 males; and the latest figures would indicate that in some areas the ratio is now 3 males to 1 female. But it should be emphasised that these are the figures for those presenting themselves at information centres for help: there must be a vast number of female alcoholics, perhaps drinking quietly at home during the day, who have not so far become apparent. . . . Some of the women were found to have a 'spiteful' attitude towards their drinking husbands, stating they felt that what was good for their husbands was good for them. . . ."
One can only hope that women will return to reality and induce man to listen to her natural wisdom. She can do this by ceasing to strive for equality with man. Equality with man means descending to man's pathetic and ridiculous level. Woman should liberate herself from imitating man and from adapting to man's abstract world.
Woman's common sense is part of a woman's nature and that nature only comes to light when she is not imitating man or adapting herself to his world. To have the courage and the chance to use her common sense, woman needs economic independence. Woman could, perhaps, ensure this independence by inheriting wealth and by insisting on a state maintenance in Communist countries. With woman's economic independence, man will be forced to come down from his abstract pedestal, and start living life instead of inventing it, acting it, or philosophizing about it.
Women collectively should seek important constitutional changes. It would be more in harmony with the nature of the human species if legislative and judicial powers were in women's hands, and the executive power in men's. Any woman with her first child becomes a natural legislator and a natural judge. For men, law and justice are creations of an abstract mind.
Man, after all, has no innate sense of organization. Man's organizations are either inspired by some transcendental considerations, or they are a cultural inheritance of abstract ideas of the past. An organization, by its very nature, is concerned with reality, a changing reality, a future. Organizations, inspired by abstract thoughts, and especially by those belonging to the past, are, therefore, far from being realistic.
An honest and unbiased analysis of history shows that societies whose organizations were inspired and influenced by women have succeeded in creating harmony among the different groups of their populations, and in realizing, through co-operation, conditions of high economic productivity, both factors of essential importance for a species which generates an increasing number of unfit and unproductive individuals.
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