As always, very keen insights, and thought-provoking, well-written work! One question I have running through my mind is whether we should view these processes as consciously carried-out (premeditated, coordinated conspiracies) or are they just subconscious?...Are the elites, or the genius social-psychologists they may employ, sitting around, perhaps with the use of some kind of AI-software tools, scheming on how to create transgenderism and then how to strategically employ it? Or, are forces of which we are not really aware, until after the fact, acting to "do" these things? Isn't it all very much like the way that evolution works in other life-forms? Mutations occurring in response to environmental forces...By the way, modern evolutionary theory no longer rests on "random" mutations. What we are looking at here is society, a life-from too, a superorganism. Mutations are always occurring within it and then being tested via the environment (includes socio-economic-political-technological conditions) for whether they are of net benefit or detriment to the fitness, power-vitality-survival, of the whole superorg. Some mutations prove permanently beneficial, well, as long as conditions are constant, and others may be only temporarily beneficial to the whole. Our DNA seems always to be experimenting too...trying out new mutations just to see whether they might work out.
I see the possibility too that in the case of a superorg which has become hegemonic, overwhelmingly powerful relative to others, that some of its internal mutants might not even have to pass any testing as to whether they improve the fitness of the whole, and may instead only benefit a portion of the whole, especially its elites. A mutation such as that however would almost surely be doomed in the longer term if in fact it tended to be detrimental to the superorg as a whole. It would lead to weakening that might eventually bring about the downfall of the superorg as it might face strengthening rivals or other external stresses.
(Superorgs breed and breed-out the types they need via internal and external socio-economic power struggles as well as via interations with the non-human realm, living and non-living.)
My feeling is that we should look at these processes as separate from any kind of ideologies, like capitalism or socialism, as they can occur in operating systems of either type. Those operating systems are of course also subject to evolutionary processes when there is a competitive situation between tow superorgs of differing systemic ideology.
(EO Wilson’s sociobiological theories apply not only to capitalistic societies.)
As to the problem of lumpen formation, the class of parasites, non-productive members of the superorg, that is clearly the result of our technological "progress" which constantly strives toward increasing labor productivity. Increased labor productivity then creates excess labor available for pursuits that would tend to increase the power of the superorg, but until new needs and wants arise in sufficient quantity to absorb the newly created excess labor, we inevitably have some lumpen...as the old adage goes..."idle minds and hands are the devil's workshop", and that would be a mutational workshop for the superorg's evolution. It is then the superorg's drive to increase power and its being met via its technological "progress" (technological mutations) that becomes the source of the lumpen...Stop "progress" and you inhibit the appearance of lumpen, but you cannot stop "progress" unless restrained by external forces or unless there is a failure to find more needs-wants, the latter being virtually impossible.
Great insight. I think that the Left has been trying to make a dependent class for a long time. They tried it first on a big racial basis but in every 'race'there are too many independent and free thinking people.
But I think this is the root cause of all of the intersectionality, to get a group that is dependent and therefore dependable, or loyal if you prefer. When AIDS looked like an epidemic it seemed like gay men on maintenance drugs might be their ticket. But that fizzled out. Lesbians have been more loyal but they need men for the ruthlessness and so many other soldiers' characteristics. So they will turn as despots always have to eunuchs and the sworn celibate a la Pope Gregory 7.
The other thing your post made me think about is: does anyone really know what kind of long term care victims of gender surgeries and pills will need? I mean we know the basics but is anyone thinking about the emotional and spiritual future of these people? It would be nice to have an idea what is needed when the establishment loses interest in them as it always does.
Wow. You’ve done it again. Interesting thinking. I feel like the theory can be challenged in parts, maybe on the whole (I wouldn’t be capable myself) but it’s definitely a very a seductive view. I detect a Marxist aspect to it too. Written with a lot of panache too. Very sharp. Thank you.
As always, very keen insights, and thought-provoking, well-written work! One question I have running through my mind is whether we should view these processes as consciously carried-out (premeditated, coordinated conspiracies) or are they just subconscious?...Are the elites, or the genius social-psychologists they may employ, sitting around, perhaps with the use of some kind of AI-software tools, scheming on how to create transgenderism and then how to strategically employ it? Or, are forces of which we are not really aware, until after the fact, acting to "do" these things? Isn't it all very much like the way that evolution works in other life-forms? Mutations occurring in response to environmental forces...By the way, modern evolutionary theory no longer rests on "random" mutations. What we are looking at here is society, a life-from too, a superorganism. Mutations are always occurring within it and then being tested via the environment (includes socio-economic-political-technological conditions) for whether they are of net benefit or detriment to the fitness, power-vitality-survival, of the whole superorg. Some mutations prove permanently beneficial, well, as long as conditions are constant, and others may be only temporarily beneficial to the whole. Our DNA seems always to be experimenting too...trying out new mutations just to see whether they might work out.
I see the possibility too that in the case of a superorg which has become hegemonic, overwhelmingly powerful relative to others, that some of its internal mutants might not even have to pass any testing as to whether they improve the fitness of the whole, and may instead only benefit a portion of the whole, especially its elites. A mutation such as that however would almost surely be doomed in the longer term if in fact it tended to be detrimental to the superorg as a whole. It would lead to weakening that might eventually bring about the downfall of the superorg as it might face strengthening rivals or other external stresses.
(Superorgs breed and breed-out the types they need via internal and external socio-economic power struggles as well as via interations with the non-human realm, living and non-living.)
My feeling is that we should look at these processes as separate from any kind of ideologies, like capitalism or socialism, as they can occur in operating systems of either type. Those operating systems are of course also subject to evolutionary processes when there is a competitive situation between tow superorgs of differing systemic ideology.
(EO Wilson’s sociobiological theories apply not only to capitalistic societies.)
As to the problem of lumpen formation, the class of parasites, non-productive members of the superorg, that is clearly the result of our technological "progress" which constantly strives toward increasing labor productivity. Increased labor productivity then creates excess labor available for pursuits that would tend to increase the power of the superorg, but until new needs and wants arise in sufficient quantity to absorb the newly created excess labor, we inevitably have some lumpen...as the old adage goes..."idle minds and hands are the devil's workshop", and that would be a mutational workshop for the superorg's evolution. It is then the superorg's drive to increase power and its being met via its technological "progress" (technological mutations) that becomes the source of the lumpen...Stop "progress" and you inhibit the appearance of lumpen, but you cannot stop "progress" unless restrained by external forces or unless there is a failure to find more needs-wants, the latter being virtually impossible.
Great insight. I think that the Left has been trying to make a dependent class for a long time. They tried it first on a big racial basis but in every 'race'there are too many independent and free thinking people.
But I think this is the root cause of all of the intersectionality, to get a group that is dependent and therefore dependable, or loyal if you prefer. When AIDS looked like an epidemic it seemed like gay men on maintenance drugs might be their ticket. But that fizzled out. Lesbians have been more loyal but they need men for the ruthlessness and so many other soldiers' characteristics. So they will turn as despots always have to eunuchs and the sworn celibate a la Pope Gregory 7.
The other thing your post made me think about is: does anyone really know what kind of long term care victims of gender surgeries and pills will need? I mean we know the basics but is anyone thinking about the emotional and spiritual future of these people? It would be nice to have an idea what is needed when the establishment loses interest in them as it always does.
Wow. You’ve done it again. Interesting thinking. I feel like the theory can be challenged in parts, maybe on the whole (I wouldn’t be capable myself) but it’s definitely a very a seductive view. I detect a Marxist aspect to it too. Written with a lot of panache too. Very sharp. Thank you.