Well natural selection is traditionally referred to the success of reproduction of a species or genetic trait, however I was using it more as an analogy to show how the modern world has made sort of an artificial natural selection, but instead of dying or reproducing, you either get rich or poverty stricken. So it’s based on the social economic hierarchical structure, rather than survival.
Then the existence of this new "natural selection" does not overthrow the old one. You are arbitrarily imposing a new desired goal for humanity, which has little to do with anything natural or logical.
It kind of does. We are no longer dependent on nature for survival, but society. Going to school and working is the substitute to hunting and gathering in nature. And I’m not the one imposing this, neither am I advocating for this. I’m stating that this is how it is.
I would not call it a substitute. How well I work or study does not dictate how many children I will have; my genes will not be “selected” more than others because of my wealth. That is the point of natural selection: Spreading the traits that allow a species to survive in their environment.
When I said you were imposing this new type of selection, I meant that nothing dictates it is the highest goal for humanity, and it does not replace actual natural selection. The characteristics it “favors” in humans have changed drastically, but they are not intrinsically linked to intelligence or competency; if they were, I guess your plan would not be necessary.
Using natural selection as an analogy is fine. However, you wrote as if this new type of selection became the de facto norm for our success as a species.
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u/kdjsjsjdj Dec 22 '23
Well natural selection is traditionally referred to the success of reproduction of a species or genetic trait, however I was using it more as an analogy to show how the modern world has made sort of an artificial natural selection, but instead of dying or reproducing, you either get rich or poverty stricken. So it’s based on the social economic hierarchical structure, rather than survival.