Evolutions cannot be disputed. Well, you can say whatever you’d like: Thankfully, in our country, crazy is a right. Adaptation has been proven in many forms of life. All species change and adapt to survive as a species. This is not an attempt to discredit a higher power. Any scientist that would like to retain that title will not dispute natural selection or adaptation.
As humans, we aren’t changing much physically. We haven’t needed to change for quite some time. Sure, we are getting taller (some of us—not me), more of us have blue eyes (lucky me!), and we’re becoming resistant to diseases, but we aren’t all that different than we were hundreds of years ago.
We have reached what I like to call a Post-Physical Evolution Stage (PPES). We are the only species to have reached this on earth. As David Attenborough, a British broadcaster and naturalist, points out in his work, we are the first species that has chosen to “opt out” of natural selection with the advent and use of birth control. This is big news for the human race.
So, what does it mean? As a PPES, we are now evolving because of knowledge. Our growth and prosperity as a species is now reliant upon what we can pass down, what our children can learn. The survival of our species is directly tied to our knowledge. We live in what may well be the most pivotal stage in human development. Knowledge and scientific discovery is our key to survival.
Intangible sociological concepts have overcome tangible physical characteristics in our evolution as a species. We are different than our ancestors because of how we interact: We have moved (mostly) from the first stages of social interaction—hunter/gatherer societies—into the fourth stage, what Lord Kames called the commercial stage. While property and trade brought about the complex legal systems that our civilized societies now have, it is becoming clear that a fifth stage has emerged: mutual reliance as a race.
With the emergence of scientific knowledge—modern medicine, nuclear science, etc.—we are our own gods, so to speak. We have a never-before-seen control of our own destiny. We can blow ourselves up, fail to invent a vaccine for a super virus, or pass on false knowledge and societal practices that will kill our race. We have entered a new social contract that is directly tied to our lack of physical evolution. Evolution, meet sociology. Mind matters.
So we learn. We adapt. Freedom is no longer a luxury; it is the key to our survival as a race. We must be free and learned. Tyrannical governments have no earned power under this social contract as the meaning of the greater good evolves.
What we choose to teach our children will ripple throughout time. Knowledge can only be guaranteed a half-life: Will our children cling to the morals of a free-society? Only if we teach them…
To learn is to evolve. I choose to learn and to teach. Much of my life has been dedicated to learning, but this learning has only been possible because of those before me that have chosen to teach through their writing (Lord Kames, for instance) and because of those who have chosen to teach me in their lifetime (my family, teachers, and friends).
Evolve your mind. The human race is counting on you.
As humans, we aren’t changing much physically. We haven’t needed to change for quite some time. Sure, we are getting taller (some of us—not me), more of us have blue eyes (lucky me!), and we’re becoming resistant to diseases, but we aren’t all that different than we were hundreds of years ago.
We have reached what I like to call a Post-Physical Evolution Stage (PPES). We are the only species to have reached this on earth. As David Attenborough, a British broadcaster and naturalist, points out in his work, we are the first species that has chosen to “opt out” of natural selection with the advent and use of birth control. This is big news for the human race.
So, what does it mean? As a PPES, we are now evolving because of knowledge. Our growth and prosperity as a species is now reliant upon what we can pass down, what our children can learn. The survival of our species is directly tied to our knowledge. We live in what may well be the most pivotal stage in human development. Knowledge and scientific discovery is our key to survival.
Intangible sociological concepts have overcome tangible physical characteristics in our evolution as a species. We are different than our ancestors because of how we interact: We have moved (mostly) from the first stages of social interaction—hunter/gatherer societies—into the fourth stage, what Lord Kames called the commercial stage. While property and trade brought about the complex legal systems that our civilized societies now have, it is becoming clear that a fifth stage has emerged: mutual reliance as a race.
With the emergence of scientific knowledge—modern medicine, nuclear science, etc.—we are our own gods, so to speak. We have a never-before-seen control of our own destiny. We can blow ourselves up, fail to invent a vaccine for a super virus, or pass on false knowledge and societal practices that will kill our race. We have entered a new social contract that is directly tied to our lack of physical evolution. Evolution, meet sociology. Mind matters.
So we learn. We adapt. Freedom is no longer a luxury; it is the key to our survival as a race. We must be free and learned. Tyrannical governments have no earned power under this social contract as the meaning of the greater good evolves.
What we choose to teach our children will ripple throughout time. Knowledge can only be guaranteed a half-life: Will our children cling to the morals of a free-society? Only if we teach them…
To learn is to evolve. I choose to learn and to teach. Much of my life has been dedicated to learning, but this learning has only been possible because of those before me that have chosen to teach through their writing (Lord Kames, for instance) and because of those who have chosen to teach me in their lifetime (my family, teachers, and friends).
Evolve your mind. The human race is counting on you.
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