Posted by Penny_Louise on Mon 10 Nov 08, 7:21 PM to Penny_Louise's blog.
Primalism 1: The End of Genetic Evolution
I believe that evolution of the species stopped when human society became civilised, that is, when our societal groups became welfare-based rather than survival-based. From this point on, evolution, the survival of the fittest ceases to become the primary factor in gene selection, and other influences take sway.
Health and wealth become primary factors, both on an individual and societal level. Rich people can buy health care and good partners, and so further their genes. Rich societies develop comprehensive healthcare systems and so their people become immune to the effects of evolution: their gene pools go unchecked, unchallenged.
At the point just before our society became civilised and evolution stopped, which for convenience let's call the stone age, our brain structure and function became almost fixed. Gene changes will continue to take place over the millennia, but without the focus of evolution, such changes will be essentially random and so will not tend to any significant singular change.
Essentially, then, genetic evolution has ended. Intelligence, sentience and language have taken over and nullified positive genetic variation, and we have replaced it with a moral code, a police system and a militia.
Sophisticated society
We now live in an extremely complicated and sophisticated society, and it can be very difficult to interpret or understand many of our emotional and behavioural responses to the world. But if we consider that in reality, all those responses were set in the stone age, before genetic evolution ended, and can be understood by analysing how we would respond in a primitive society, many 'issues' of today become much clearer. In particular, my interest lies in the responses of, or connected to, fetishism, gender role, personal and sexual confidence.
When I get time to indulge myself further in more musing, I'll expand on some of these, but for now, that's an introduction to my philosophy on human society, and which I refer to as Primalism. The study of primal response in primitive society on the understanding that those responses are now largely unchanged but set in the context of a modern and complex society.
Edited Fri 5 Jun 09, 6:31 PM by Penny_Louise
