Chapter 4
Four Boxes
Be warned: Once you lose your tribalism, you’re no good to anybody except the political philosophy of Universalism.Once you lose your tribalism, the military doesn’t work, religion doesn’t work, politics doesn’t work, and economics doesn’t work, because the church-state can no longer turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence.
Four Boxes
It is clear that we are the product of four “boxes”, alternatively stated, four levels of environmental determinism: the physics-governed indifferent universe, pre-adaptations that produced eusociality and tribalism, cultural survival vehicle, and self. I already want to be the next evolution of species that looks back on Homo sapiens with the disdain that Homo sapiens looked at Homo neanderthalensis with. Well not really – I just want to solve all our current species problems -with the same fierce urgency of now. That being admitted, social science through reductionism to physics designs the improvement necessary for our species to transform itself, and both escape such evolutionary baggage and design a new sustainable solution for the human condition.
As a thought experiment, Neil deGrasse Tyson contemplates how the 1% genetic difference existing between Chimpanzees and Humans might manifest as a nearly incomprehensible difference between Humans and an Alien species that had 1% genetic difference from us. Super 8* is a good example, where a sentient intelligent organism evolved over millions or even billions of years exhibits a synthesis of exceptional abilities, which may, for example, be the product of genetic engineering.
Imagine the smartest species in the universe engineering themselves to be the most robust organism, including the technology to support them. You don’t want to run into that sort of thing unless they have achieved sustainable unification with governing physics, and have no reason to exchange aggressively with our species. There’s no sense being paranoid about such alien potential affecting us however, because there’s virtually nothing we could do about such an encounter anyway. Certainly it’s not productive to ramp-up the military in preventive response to such potential, as we would end up burning our own world down by exploiting people and dangerous technologies in the process. Such a response simply betrays our own species idiosyncratic eusociality and tribalism determined through past lesser ability. It’s far more useful to consider what Homo sapiens would currently do with such power, for example through deuterium-based cold fusion. All precedent identifies that the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason would corrupt such power into further social, economic, and environmental dysfunction.
When multi-cellular life finally achieves sentient intelligence, and looks back on its inherited debt of biological determinisms, solutions span:
· Considering our biological determinism problematic and overwhelming enough to trade-in biological “wet-life” for digitized “dry-life”
· Biocentrism that wants to perform genocide against Homo sapiens
· A hybrid philosophy of biocentrism/anthropocentrism such as Universalism that wishes to coordinate this relationship
· Those that wish to continue as we are while putting techno-fix Band Aids on church-state exceptionalism without reason that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence, while a schism remains between the natural physics-governed hierarchy and a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy, class poverty and war remains perennial, biodiversity vanishes, and global warming steadily encroaches.
It is clear that biological existence is problematic enough to not only want to get out of the boxes that an indifferent universe designs, but “biology with technology” actually needs to get out of the boxes that an indifferent universe designs. We, after all, want to live, where the indifferent universe repeatedly slams asteroids into planets with nary a cognizant whim, including designs the mindless genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason until premature global warming extinction with nary a cognizant whim.
It has been suggested that the reason we have a hard time understanding the universe is because the universe didn’t occur with any intention of entertaining sentient biology. The Rare Earth theory identifies that Homo sapiens may be an extremely rare aberration in the indifferent universe, and the expanding cosmological model identifies that the indifferent universe will exist, expand, and end like a gigantic cosmic fart emitted by an equally mindless indifferent multiverse. Certainly, there’s no obvious role for sentient intelligent biology to play in the origin, management, or conclusion of the expanding cosmological model; all biology can do is manage ourselves in relationship to the expanding cosmological model. Plenty of microbes have gone extinct while clinging to bits of flotsam and jetsam, where such flotsam and jetsam didn’t occur with any intention of hosting clingy microbes.
As I am fond of pointing out (because I find it philosophically intolerable), through “infinite regression” there’s no logical reason for anything to exist in the very beginning, including therefore for something to exist from nothing in the very beginning. Of course, this conundrum lends itself to a creationist interpretation. Nevertheless, when we identify the natural physics-governed explanation for the Big Bang universe and expanding cosmological model, the myriad circumstances that are non-conducive to life that the Rare Earth theory identifies, all the ways the universe tries to kill us, including the myriad pre-adaptations that led to producing the first sentient intelligence on Earth in over 4 billion years, creationism is revealed as preposterous.
Meanwhile, because there’s no logical reason for anything to exist in the very beginning, including therefore for something to exist from nothing in the very beginning, I find it philosophically useful to consider that we may live inside a gigantic digital simulation multiverse. If for no other reason, and without any further reason, this infinite possibility enables the mind to never grow stagnant, including without compromising the ability to move forward in unification with the physics-governed indifferent universe.
Of course, infinite regression once again invalidates whatever might have caused the something from nothing of a digital simulation multiverse to exist! Possibly however, parameters of the digital simulation multiverse actually prevent us from identifying how something can exist from nothing, or what actually caused the digital simulation multiverse to exist! So, we may very well never understand how a potential multiverse came into being, or how our Big Bang universe came into being (aside for example, through theoretical Membrane Collision theory). All that we may ever understand is that our universe, galaxy, solar system, and planet is physics-governed by the initial conditions of physics, and stable enough to have produced complex life on Earth. If you’re happy with a few million years of existence - that may need to be good enough understanding to remain functional, sustainable, and happy - even orgasmically happy on unprecedented levels.
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The first box is determined by cosmological evolution in the indifferent universe. Outside of identifying the consequence of the initial conditions of physics to affect biological existence, let’s not further overly complicate the argument with the “grandfather box” of all the various models of an as-yet un-testable multiverse. If you want to check that out, I recommend Brian Greene’s book on the subject matter.* Nevertheless, one should remember that regardless of a potential multiverse, nothing about a multiverse invalidates what our Big Bang universe has in point of fact produced: The initial conditions of physics through the weak nuclear, strong nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravitational forces that govern cause and effect between mass and motion in our universe. This influence has never been invalidated in 13.7 billion years, and that’s all we require to design an objective political philosophy consistent with our Big Bang universe.
This would be the section where I contributed my “universe story”, which educated the reader to the entire cosmological evolution of the indifferent universe up until right now, including its physics-governed expansion and conclusion. Currently however, I find this exercise tedious, including redundant to the many available sources that perform this task far better than my abridged versions. In addition, my audience doesn’t require this history of cosmology to move forward with the Big Bang universe. For those that require a crash-course however, I recommend viewing the History Channel’s “The Universe” series episode called “Beyond the Big Bang”, which provides a serviceable history of the people and events that enabled our understanding of the Big Bang universe.
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The second box is determined by the series of pre-adaptations that produced eusociality and tribalism, including our species idiosyncratic ability to ultra-sociality through multi-level selection - which we take for granted - yet is unique in the history of biology. Two sources I consider critical in this understanding are E. O. Wilson’s “The Social Conquest of Earth” to identify the new standard in evolutionary biology of “multi-level selection”, and Mark Pagel’s “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind” to identify tribalism as “cultural survival vehicles”.
Eusociality and tribalism are identified as an evolutionary battleground between individual-level selection and group-level selection that – in application to “biology with technology” - must now find sustainable resolution in the physics-governed indifferent universe to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming. Once this equilibrium is identified and attained, we will no longer be at war with our own species, or the indifferent universe. Think of the efficiency, and potential, including unprecedented happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction. I’ll admit: I want to be the one that identified and engineered a successful relationship between the biocentrism of the indifferent universe, and the idiosyncrasy ofHomo sapiens anthropocentrism.
Manmade yet physics-governed global warming identifies that our species technology-based eusociality is moving in the direction of favoring group-level selection (i.e. “world”, or “species-level” selection), over individual-level selection, i.e. “GLS > ILS”. It was natural selection-determined brain-dead tribalism without reason that produced religion to affect an unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty, which enabled and rewarded the religio-economics of church-state systems serving growth-model capitalism on a finite planet to cause the unsustainable production, consumption, disparity in wealth, and concentration of power that caused climate change and global warming.
Nothing about capitalism serving natural selection-determined brain-dead tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason spanning individual-level selection to group-level selection is sustainable. Church-state exceptionalism without reason that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence isn’t sustainable. Individual specialization and innovation isn’t an intrinsic problem, it’s only a problem for “biology with technology” when determined through natural selection-determined brain-dead tribalism without reason with a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct.
Predictably, conservative forces determined by mindless natural selection to enable both individual-level selection and group-level selection through brain-dead tribalism without reason will resist making this transition to achieving group-level sustainability through science-identified artificial selection and logic. The clearest example is considering our species perennially subservient to the dark processes of natural selection through bottom-up tribalism without reason, to produce religion and laissez faire capitalism without reason, instead of seeing the logic and benefits of biological unification with top-down governing physics including other Homo sapiens-sympathetic artificial selection and logic.
We can now identify how enabling individual-level selection through a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty must be corrected by a truthful definition of group-level selection liberty regulated in unification with science and governing physics. Homo sapiens now have sufficient knowledge of both our own species and the physics-governed indifferent universe to design our species as a complete objective physical system capable of designing predictive positive cause and effect consequence from the indifferent universe.
Moreover, through social design that enables predictive positive cause and effect consequence, individuals don’t need to concern themselves if their every action constitutes “unification” or “division”. Science-based systems-based social design protocols designs gross social unification with the physics-governed indifferent universe that minimizes the ability to unintentional infraction. Science-based systems-based social design provides a free and sustainable society where the individual can explore sustainable actions through the institutions of food, water, shelter, sex, education, and art.
The individual is free to discover their aptitude with these institutions, educate themselves to increase and change their aptitude, and move freely within these institutions according to personal desire and system requirements, similar to how the current system works. Through science-based systems-based social design however, this time our actions aren’t based on disparity in wealth and concentration of power to become insulated and protected tribal “chiefs” and “priests” to avoid the church-state exploiting money, poverty, and falsehood, and diminishing our existence into cannon fodder violence.
Achieving this consensus is however, difficult. Meanwhile, the church-state requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence and global warming steadily encroaches. Nevertheless, many consider it much easier to accommodate the false damaging diversity of tribalism without reason through poorly qualified institutions such as deism, religion, traditional political democracy, and laissez faire capitalism. Nevertheless, poorly qualified freedom of speech identifies where science capable of designing predictive positive cause and effect consequence from the physics-governed indifferent universe is given the impossible task of tolerating the political defense of falsehood, exploitation, and physical damage caused by religion and growth-model laissez faire capitalism on a finite planet, which are both incompatible with maintaining the delicately balanced nonlinear feedback loops of the ecosystem, including with overcoming global warming.
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The third box is the particular “cultural survival vehicle”* we happen to be born into. This box produces a vast diversity of languages and cultures - each thought exceptional and therefore entitled - yet each performing an equal function of achieving survival during tribal existence. Consequently, our “cultural survival vehicles” identify immense environmental determinism through natural selection. Currently however, a tribal-specific mode of existence is being challenged by interchangeable industrialized democracies, the homogenized monoculture of globalization, and a scientific definition of liberty that overcomes manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Clearly, cultural evolution memes are replacing the influence of genetic evolution genes, while simultaneously the gene-culture trappings of genetic evolution conflicts with and resists progressive cultural evolution memes. Consequently,Homo sapiens now require a new science, political philosophy, and even complementary optimistic secular “religion” to aid in this transition from culture determined through the liabilities of genetic evolution genes (identified by sociobiology), to culture determined through superior cultural evolution memes. Only the memes of science can now identify and design the biological sustainability of eusocial/tribal technological globalization on Earth, and in the indifferent universe, i.e.physiosociobiology.
The development of monoculture through globalization - i.e. the distinct product of “biology with technology”, including the ability to affect the entire global ecosystem - must now find sustainable resolution in the physics-governed indifferent universe, for example to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming. One must ask: How do species possessing eusocial/tribal determinisms balance individual-level selection with group-level selection to achieve sustainable resolution with the physics-governed indifferent universe? That is a question that exists beyond cosmopolitan wisdom such as the traditional democratic accommodation of biological diversity provides, and in fact requires cosmological wisdom that quantifies the accommodation of biological diversity through either sustainable unification with governing physics, or unsustainable division with governing physics. This is the cosmological wisdom that the thesis of Mechanical-Social Integration and the science of physiosociobiology provide to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Currently, the answer determined by “cosmopolitan” wisdom is: Slowly and problematically, where reliance on faith-based reasoning and its secular equivalent of hope diminishes our species into uncertain results, which some like I find an unacceptable strategy. Meanwhile, the developments and influences of eusocial technological globalization - for example manmade yet physics-governed global warming - are finally identifying the profound need for improved wisdom that designs biological alignment with physics-governed cosmological requirements. The Big Question is: Will eusocial/tribal technological globalization perform alignment with physics-governed cosmological requirements quickly enough to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming? If the internet is a glorified global telephone system - we all need to call each other quickly - and all get on the same page of science in biological unification with governing physics to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Historically, key to the success of this third box is tribal unity, where the particular language, religion, hierarchy, and division of labor matter much less than producing the results of group unity. Simultaneously however, every culture fights the constant battle of the attributes of individual-level selection integrating with and/or exploiting the attributes of group-level selection. We should be careful therefore, of blaming the individual for problems caused by tribalism without reason; otherwise a bunch of wealthy white property owning Jesus-freaks end up burning “witches” at the stake to represent the rule of law, including burning entire populations and the planet down through Theo-conservatism, Neo-conservatism, and economic libertarianism as the definition of liberty™ and freedom™.
For a logistically large nation tribalism poses a particular problem, which can only be solved by a totalitarian dictatorship, the accommodation of diversity – or – the achievement of unity through the identification of universal qualities. The United States of America, for example, purports to achieve national unity, and even the potential for world unity, by both accommodating false damaging diversity and asserting that such accommodation constitutes “universal principles”, asserted as individual liberty, freedom of speech including religion, and economic and political freedom.
Unfortunately - natural selection actually does produce false damaging diversity - so one could assert that the accommodation of false damaging diversity does constitute a “universal principle”. Consequently, America attempts to turn a sows’ ear into a silk purse, and glosses over natural selection producing false damaging diversity with rhetoric, propaganda, and philosophical generalizations that don’t fix the problem of tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason, and instead actually encourages them. Unfortunately, this strategy isn’t the progressive logical way forward for sentient intelligent Homo sapiens; it’s the way back to the Stone Age and single-celled organisms.
America is therefore a bizarre illogical synthesis of a totalitarian dictatorship attempted to be made palatable by a “Constitution”, “rule of law”, and “democracy”, which nevertheless forces the accommodation of false damaging diversity down everybody’s throat whether you like it or not, or whether its socially and environmentally sustainable or not. “United” therefore remains vastly different than “unified”, which makes all the difference between producing a state-of-the-art deism-determined church-state model that fails almost as soon as you design it - because science and technology exponentially magnified all the flaws - and actually designing a truthful sustainable technological global civilization.
In effect (or theory), individual liberty and economic freedom satisfy individual-level selection, while freedom of speech, religion, and political freedom serve group-level selection. The problem of course, is that associating individual-level selection with manmade money quickly becomes exploited in an inhumane manner consistent with mindless natural selection-determined church-state exceptionalism without reason, and achieving group-level unity with religion causes vast physical problems identified by artificial selection-determined information-based analysis, specifically religion is illogical, easily exploitable, and causes physical damage.
Ultimately, and even though it was considered state-of-the-art by assuming the basic tenet of French Enlightenment philosophy (which is that if we can get the science right, we can get the social science right*), the Founding Fathers particular accommodation of eusociality and tribalism was in point of fact determined by poor quality information, and therefore the effort was false and consequently failed. Nobody should feel bad about this unfortunate circumstance, which is evolutionarily intrinsic to problematic biological circumstance, and simply embrace the correct solution enabled by new high-quality information. Of course, gene-culture determinism identifies that such objectivity is literally impossible, as tribes will exist a mile apart and use different languages, customs, and execute petty feuds, raids, and revenge killings, rather than perform unification between tribes. I hope this ludicrousness impresses everyone with the consequences of mindless natural selection to affect brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason.
Meanwhile, laissez faire capitalism qualifies everyone as the enemy in a poor attempt at quantifying the new secular phenomenon of natural selection. Clearly, two centuries of influence does not design ubiquitous well-reasoned wisdom. Meanwhile, there is no way one can wish “survival of the fittest” or natural selection on another person, because it is tantamount to wishing death on them. Consequently, evolutionary biologists are extremely careful to avoid asserting natural selection functioning in human society, outside of “politically correct” applications such as genetic disorders. Meanwhile, natural selection is the process that produced us, and currently determines us. Given the problem of tribalism without reason producing an unworkable and unsustainable conundrum for science and society, it seems clear that the usefulness of natural selection has run its course in human society, and Homo sapiens must now mange themselves through well-reasoned well-qualified artificial selection and logic.
Attempting to qualify individual specialization, innovation, and exchange through capitalism as serving the function of group-level selection is way off the mark of accommodating eusocial technological globalization through truthful artificial selection in sustainable unification with governing physics, for example to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming. The conservative phenomenon of enabling religion and laissez faire capitalism, including warmongering and building more and more prisons, is a by-product of flawed liberty, democracy, rule of law, and Constitution that each serves an ill-conceived accommodation of eusociality and tribalism without reason.
Associating individual-level selection with manmade money (Adam Smith’s “quantifiable” equation, which - in order to make the equation work through “incentives” - suddenly requires the collective of Homo sapiens very ability to survive to be determined through capitalist exploitation), effectively commoditized and exploited the totality of human existence for the abstraction of “profit”. I. e., system-based profit always coming first, and people always coming second, is intrinsic to exploitive-oppressive capitalism, where consequently the advertised benefit of capitalism is always subject to trickledown effects that are always minimized to enable the highest profit retention.
Consequently, individual-level selection has not been primarily determined through glorified specialization, innovation, and exchange, where such individual efforts routinely go unrewarded, or pathetically rewarded. Rather through the group-level selection (The Wealth of Nations) of dead-behind-the-eyes profit-generating policies such as “trickledown benefits”, and the predatory financialization of the economy. These methodologies feed and appease the appetites of poorly determined church-state exceptionalism, and through the emphasis on unscientific unregulated individual liberty in America, the appetites of economic libertarian exceptionalism.
Such efforts span misguided amateur libertarian atheists, the Family on C Street, Theo-conservative trickledown Reaganomics, and extremely Jewish predatory Wall Street. Consequently, the tribalism of American-designed religio-economic influence publically asserts the “pursuit” of happiness, not the guarantee, and causes both Chinese and American workers to commit suicide rather than “free-slave” another day as the definition of “individual liberty”. What’s worse, extremely Jewish predatory Wall Street, Hitler, or the church-state that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence?
The tribalism of religio-economic influence has never caused the free market to self-regulate in a manner we would now consider consistent with the rule of law, or humaneness, or achieving social or environmental sustainability; due diligence with capitalism affords no quarter for “rational optimism”. If one’s economic libertarian methodology causes exploited workers to commit suicide rather that free-slave another day, I believe one must seriously reconfigure there “philosophy of life”.
Associating individual-level selection with manmade money and capitalism effectively wishes death on people – where genetic expansion, territorial aggression, and church-state exceptionalism-determined religio-economic exploitation and oppression designs class and generational poverty that routinely determine people’s fate for the worse. The Black American experience identified by Jeremy Rifkin’s “The End of Work” provides evidence of such primitive tribal determinism. No social design protocols laid forth by either progressive democrats or economic libertarians resolve the inhumanness of tribalism without reason to produce church-state exceptionalism without reason, and unsustainable religio-economic class and generational poverty circumstance, including unsustainable environmental circumstance.
Adam Smith wrote a treatise on human morality before “The Wealth of Nations”. Nevertheless, “incentivizing” people by determining their fate through the exploitation of capitalism is tantamount to wishing death on them if they do not perform to capitalist profit expectations. In addition, profit is demonstrated as an escalating infinite variable inconsistent with both brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason and the limitations of physics-governed physical reality (i.e. finite and limiting resources, and the delicately balanced nonlinear feedback loops of the ecosystem). Just like religion, because it is determined through the same unscientific unregulated definition of liberty to serve tribalism without reason, capitalism is proven illogical, easily exploitable, and to cause physical damage equal to the falsehood of religion. Both the falsehood of religion and laissez faire capitalism are determined through the same false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty, which cannot possibly be scientifically correct. At the heart of “not possibly being scientifically correct” is mindless natural selection-determined tribalism without reason.
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The fourth box is determined by our own particular individual survival vehicle - our individual bodies and minds – where our perception of our individual bodies and minds frequently become our own worst enemy. The perception of our individual bodies and minds is highly influenced by the specific cultural survival vehicle we are born into, where perceptions of beauty and utility vary widely. Once again, this circumstance identifies the environmental determinism of mindless natural selection to promote cultural subjectivity through low-tech tribalism.
Consequently, we are easily capable of diminishing ourselves in subservience of eusocial and tribal subjectivity, where for example economic libertarianism makes the primitive microcosmic mistake of serving the same disparity in wealth and concentration of power that ultimately serves the church-state they despise. Unfortunately, indoctrination into religion and capitalism don’t facilitate achieving a positive representation of our bodies and minds, or even necessarily enable our own individual survival. Evidence demonstrates a church-state that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence to cause class poverty, lack of health care, suicide bombers, and the average cosmopolitan global wage-slave that eventually dies of poverty related circumstances, (including deluded celebrate priests and economic libertarians).
This is the realm of evolutionary biology and psychology correlated with modern progressive political philosophy. The modern therapist and political scientist must now correlate our species idiosyncratic ability to eusociality, tribalism, and ultra-sociality, to produce a sustainable human condition that overcomes manmade yet physics-governed global warming. Such therapy must now correlate a human-condition drama played between the selfish attributes of individual-level selection (typically the accumulation of wealth) attempting to integrate with and/or exploit the magnanimous attributes of group-level selection (typically requiring self-sacrifice), including where the “magnanimous” attributes of group-level selection routinely exploit the individual. Confoundedly, for both the therapist and human condition, the magnanimous attributes of group-level selection determined by tribalism without reason are now proven dysfunctional in relationship to achieving social and economic sustainability through unification with governing physics, for example to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Regardless of the particular cultural survival vehicle we are born into (and/or abused by during the ubiquitous tribal sacrifice of individuals) these conflicted and confounded relationships are now playing out through the movement towards global monoculture. As identified, this circumstance is producing increasingly problematic psychology for eusociality and tribalism, spanning divisiveness, sociopaths, and schizophrenia. These relationships are further qualified by the limitations caused by dopamine rewards, brain-chemistry, and ones particular life-cycle stage. One hopes that a new “super-therapist” will emerge, and overcome these liabilities through a new technique that enables people to become unified with governing physics, and design predictive positive consequence from the indifferent universe that defeats manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Let’s hope (an accurate use of the concept of hope) that the modern therapist and politician doesn’t become overwhelmed with the complexities exhibited by the four boxes we exist in. Let’s hope the modern therapist and politician doesn’t diminish therapy to psychopharmacology, or useful hypocrisy in absence of telling the client the direct truth – including dealing with the predictable fallout - in a sustainable manner. If Homo sapiens continue to seek help for their problems through traditional therapy and politics, they will need lots of good luck. It’s no wonder that therapists and politicians listen superficially to the trials and tribulations of individual-level selection attempting to integrate with and/or exploit the attributes of group-level selection, while being preoccupied with the indulgence of their own individual-level selection determined by a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct.
Chapter 5
What Now?
Voltaire said, “The world will never truly be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” The evolutionary biology of multi-level selection - where individual-level selection must either integrate with and/or exploit group-level selection - identifies those that wish to be insulated and protected tribal “chiefs” and “priests” rather than sacrificial “braves”. Commonsense identifies that the church-state requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. The real solution therefore, requires both overcoming our obsolete biological determinisms, and designing a new truthful sustainable society.
What Now?
Everybody wants to know “what now” (the role of leadership) because of the evolutionary predicament we find ourselves in, which can currently only be accommodated through progressive cognitive cultural evolution with artificial selection and logic.
Understanding that our existence is problematic, and that we will make mistakes, yet must always try to improve, is axiomatic to biological existence. There’s no throwing the key away on people in my book; conversion to science-based social design protocols remains an option. For example, the description of mental toughness provided by Billy Jack* is quite profound, where the dynamics between individual-level selection and group-level selection are now as clear as a snake-biting church bell ringing in the middle of nowhere, which is just as biologically determined and physics-governed as anywhere.
My salmon brothers, I will swim with you soon enough (i.e. my stellar nucleosynthesis manufactured heavy elements will reduce once again to chemical elements that mix with the soil, and back into the water and sea). No matter where you are - there you are - in all the glory of existence spanning good to bad; so let’s make it good for a change. We are the first species on Earth capable of identifying this, but the idiosyncrasy of sentient intelligent Homo sapiens eusocial worldcan be made truthful and sustainable.
With the very inventor of the “naturalist” social sciences changing his mind (abandoning inclusive fitness theory) at this late global warming date, what can we determine accurately about the “Biological Model”? Even if our artificial selection understanding of our cosmological and evolutionary predicament were to be considered general, such understanding constitutes a vastly more correct understanding of our existence than past lesser ability provided. Even if our understanding was considered general, we can now easily quantify the tyranny of mindless natural selection to produce tribalism without reason, church-state exceptionalism without reason, manmade yet physics-governed global warming, and evolutionary dead-ends.
Perhaps however, the most significant contribution is that Wilson identifies where religion and philosophy and even conventional wisdom in science such as behavioralism has been incorrect, and instead stages understanding the human condition as the product of natural selection, and therefore as an animal species on an animal planet. Understanding the determinism of natural selection, and what it means to be a “human animal” is however, difficult. It’s difficult to identify that we are eusocial, tribal, and live in cultural survival vehicles that harbor lack of reason at their very core; it’s difficult to come to terms with this determinism both individually and collectively.
The analysis of eusociality and tribalism however, identifies tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason, including the ubiquitous roles of tribalism, to demonstrate our biological machines at a far more consequential group-selection level than simply accruing disparity in wealth to ensure our own individual-level selection. Being an animal species on an animal planet also identifies cosmological determinism, and therefore the battle between the natural physics-governed hierarchy and a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy. These two hierarchies identify mutually exclusive and incompatible worldviews, and they directly affect our species ability to sustainability in the indifferent universe.
As Mark Pagel identifies, since natural selection produced us, it is reasonable to assume (hypothesis) that the evolution of our cultures perform the function of “cultural survival vehicles”, by ruthlessly promoting our existence in response to the pressures of natural selection. This however, is bad news for the social construction of America, which is now demonstrated as an entirely mundane, predictable, and false product determined by mindless natural selection producing tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason.
Tribalism without reason has produced the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason, which dubious formula has been empowered by fossil fuels to produce rapid human-condition implosion and global warming. Demonstratively, empowering the tyrant of individual-level selection with an exponentially efficient energy source while remaining subject to the biological determinism of tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason, isn’t such a good idea. The lesson learned is, if you’re going to empower a biological organism with an exponentially efficient energy source, it better be a smart little biological organism that has left obsolete biological determinisms such as tribalism without reason far behind it. If I were a religionist, this is the grace I would wish god imparted unto me while forgiving me for all my earthy sins before turning me into pure energy as a hyper-intelligent angle to do goodness throughout the universe.
Given new high-quality information, one must accommodate the fact that the mindless natural selection process produces an equally “brain-dead” instinctual product. As noted, our species idiosyncratic eusociality and tribalism (our species “Umwelt”) “makes making” this qualification about our own species biological determinisms almost impossible. Moreover, when we do observe our species image determined by natural selection, our own intelligence doesn’t even necessarily like the product so produced. Homo sapiens are the first and only sentient intelligent species on Earth in billions of years, and we are vastly determined by primitive instincts developed in response to eusociality, tribalism, and a hunting-gathering mode of production and our continued technological existence is not guaranteed.
Unfortunately, the pressures of natural selection reward diversity and adaptability that results in subjectivity such as the falsehood of religion, as long as the falsehood of religion produces attributes that promote survival such as tribal unity. Consequently, the pressures of natural selection reward diversity and adaptability through the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason. Unfortunately, this results in producing an unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty to affect politics and economics, which has caused global warming.
When the human condition is qualified through the biological determinism of mindless natural selection to produce brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason enabled by a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct, to produce social-design implosion and premature global warming extinction, I don’t feel like an “apex predator”. I don’t feel humble either - rather like an apex predator betrayed by both the natural and social process that produced me - and ready to redouble my efforts on all-new contrarian intellectual scales. I now understand that no amount of poorly qualified “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”, including disparity in wealth and concentration of power, is suddenly going to design a solution to the human condition, including solve global warming.
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Religion represents the spots on fish, and science represents the absence of spots on fish, which natural selection selects for survival if we prostrate ourselves on a social design river bottom that either mimics spots, or doesn’t mimic spots. Through the influence of “biology with technology” - which is now able to impact the entire global ecosystem - our species collective intelligence now determines our species fate in the physics-governed global warming indifferent universe.
Unfortunately, the average cosmopolitan Homo sapiens remains challenged in understanding biological determinism through evolution and natural selection to produce eusociality and tribalism. The average cosmopolitan Homo sapiensalso remains challenged in understanding the determinism of physics in the indifferent universe to govern manmade global warming. Consequently, Homo sapiens remain challenged in the ability to produce truthful sustainable social design. Because of the failure of natural selection to produce tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason, Homo sapiens require a new science and political philosophy, even optimistic secular “religion”, which identify and integrate the two greatest influences that directly affect our species existence: evolutionary biology and the physics-governed universe, i.e. Physiosociobiology, the political philosophy of Universalism, and optimism of attaining a superior state of nature.
Currently, biologically problematic cause and effect spans the mundane church-state subjective to the exotic science-based social design objective; meaning both conservative and progressive options face serious obstacles. Economies of social-design scale must now be highly engineered to achieve a correct sustainable objective in a timely manner that defeats steadily encroaching global warming. Meanwhile, Homo sapiens continue to consider the subjectivity of religion - which has simply and primitively promoted tribal unity through false origin stories, including defeat the territorial enemy and promote church-state exceptionalism without reason, as “a natural process” - including such worship constituting an “inalienable human right” and “self-evident truth”.
The philosophical constructs that the modern human condition uses to design tribal unity remain false; nevertheless, these cultural evolution memes continue to affect genetic evolution genes by predating on society with money, poverty, and falsehood. Consequently, our species artificial selection information-based existence must now flip from “gene-culture” theory that determined “Old World” dynamics, to “culture-gene” theory that determine “New World” dynamics. The quality of our memes (information) now determines our species fate in the physics-governed universe to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming, i.e. “CEM > GEG”. This circumstance, and the ability to integrate eusocial technological globalization in a sustainable manner with the physics-governed universe, constitutes the need for the new hybrid natural-social science of physiosociobiology.
“To be or not to be”, is the information-based question of existence for a technological civilization able to affect the entire global ecosystem, which is determined between false and true memes. The subjectivity of religion to promote tribal unity that defeats the territorial enemy is in fact a natural process. Unfortunately, it is a mindless natural selection-determined subjective false-meme process that operates in a terrestrial microcosm, and is not consistent with the objective true-meme macrocosm of the greater requirements of the physics-governed indifferent universe, which through causality affects the terrestrial microcosm we call Earth, including Homo sapiens.
Consequently, we now face the considerable dilemma of squaring the mindless natural selection processes that produced us through tribal existence, which produces institutions such as a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy, with the very real and consequential natural physics-governed cause and effect hierarchy. Each environment and process is “natural” and naturally produced, yet each is incompatible with the other; microcosmic terrestrial natural selection produces biological subjectivity, yet sustainable passage into the physics-governed indifferent universe requires cosmological-biological objectivity, i.e. Mechanical-Social Integration. This isn’t a journey reserved for the individual specialization, innovation, and exchange of scientists determined through tribalism without reason by laissez faire capitalism poked by the sharp stick of economic libertarianism. This is a journey for every Homo sapiens that stands on the shoulders of giants through cultural evolution as a sustainable birthright, where truthful government through the Democracy of Science designs sustainability and equality for everyone spanning child to elder.
The evolution of our cultures perform the function of “cultural survival vehicles”, which ruthlessly promote our existence in response to the pressures of life and death natural selection, determined by the logistics of many small tribes competing over limiting natural resources. During this tribal period determined by past lesser ability, our species committed genocide against our sister species Homo neanderthalensis, we committed genocide against many diverse cultures throughout history, and demonstrate a running history of petty feuds, raids, and revenge killings on neighboring tribes.
We really need to embrace the horror of being persecuted to extinction to understand the deterministic power of natural selection that designs the instinctual responses of tribalism without reason. We need to understand that tribalism without reason perpetuates a cycle of “negative circular feedback” through instinctual tribal militarism, religion, church-state exceptionalism, and exploitive capitalism, which simply perpetuates the cycle of madness and abuse. Every religio-economic exotic such as extremely Jewish Wall Street should seriously contemplate being biologically determined by tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason, which perpetuates a cycle of madness and abuse.
Being a genocidal monster - or liberator - or overnight torturer on the field of battle, or good Christian burning an atheist or homosexual at the stake in the town square, are universal human attributes. In addition, such activity is frequently disguised through less severe degrees of management and punishment to nevertheless perform an ulterior yet primitive conservative agenda. Both children and elders will gladly throw such rocks in the glass house of many small tribes competing over natural resources, or while simply instinctually following such evolutionary remnants in relationship to modern civilization.
The biological will-to-live can demonstratively manifest as a mindless freak parade, like fish with both eyes grotesquely wrapped around to one side of their face, and no less exemplified than by Adam Smith’s “quantifiable equation” that exploits human existence through capitalism to facilitate targeted church-state genetic expansion and territorial dominance (“The Wealth of Nations”). Unfortunately, this “quantifiable equation” serves a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct, which enables the wealthy white Christian property owning Jesus-freak demographic to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. Does “biology with technology” that is negatively affecting the entire global ecosystem actually think it’s wise to enable every freaky demographic through a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct?
Perhaps, even though the specifics of human behavior are becoming increasingly clear through multi-level selection, the greatest wisdom of evolutionary biology is that we are an animal species on an animal planet, and all that entails in the battle between science, which identifies a natural physics-governed cause and effect hierarchy, and religion that identifies a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy.
These two camps are mutually exclusive and incompatible world views. Like many atheists and evolutionary biologists, E. O. Wilson asserts Homo sapiens deserve better. For example, better than the false origin stories, rituals, and institutionalization that design a schism between the natural physics-governed cause and effect hierarchy and a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy, including therefore the vastly conflicted and problematic existence that religion perpetuates (until of course such consequential falsehood causes premature extinction). When we consider however, the blind evolutionary ignorance that we evolved from, and that natural selection is mindless and produces lack of reason and evolutionary dead-ends - perhaps we actually don’t deserve anything better - because to deserve something better will require truly earning the understanding of our namesake’s wisdom in order to break out of the “four boxes” that the indifferent universe designs.
Meanwhile, achieving progressive political philosophy that simply identifies manmade yet physics-governed global warming may constitute too many evolutionary and cognitive hoops to ask a species to jump through. Perhaps we would prefer a familiar organic mindless existence like every other species that each went extinct without ever understanding why. Knowing why is difficult. For “biology with technology” such knowledge designs group-level responsibility in biological unification with governing physics to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming, and this changes nearly everything about social design determined though past lesser ability.
The I. D. P. Causality Model
My studies (in this case the I.D.P. Causality Model – Ignorance, Division with the requirements of governing physics, and Metaphysical Justice Punishment resting firmly on a cause and effect physics foundation), including others, identify that religion is illogical, easily exploitable, and causes physical damage. Today, even evolutionary biologists that identify how religion evolved through natural selection to promote our species can no longer tolerate our species religious training wheels that we pedaled so furiously throughout a long period of blind evolutionary ignorance and past lesser ability. This is immensely important, because it identifies that even evolutionary biologists concede that the products of natural selection that lead to modern institutions such as religion are not sacred, or necessarily continue to be useful.
So, what other natural processes produced by mindless natural selection, which lead to brain-dead instinctual modern institutions, and other vestigial artifacts, are also not sacred and no longer continue to be useful? Reductionism to physics identifies a problem with obsolete and damaging instincts, which evolved in response to tribalism without reason and a hunting-gathering mode of production, and are no longer applicable or beneficial for technological society that is able to negatively impact the entire global ecosystem. Obsolete yet ubiquitous tribal instincts reflect laissez faire religion, laissez faire capitalism, and laissez faire capitalism church-state exceptionalism without reason. For example in America, religion and laissez faire capitalism are enabled through the same definition of individual liberty, which cannot possibly be scientifically correct. Ultimately, such comparison and contrast identifies the profound difference between natural selection and artificial selection.
Viewing human interaction through the lens of multi-level selection identifies both individual-level and group-level selection working together in a eusocial species, which is a revelation. The applications are extensive. It is now easy for me to identify people that are instinctually determined through conservativeness that gravitates towards the group-level selection of tribalism enabled by religion, sports, and “country music”. This understanding enables me to identify the conservative individual-level selection of libertarianism, including where the two conservative agendas of religion and libertarianism find religio-economic symbiosis. This understanding also enables me to identify those that are less instinctually determined, culturally compromised, or simply intelligent, to gravitate towards progressive social design protocols. Now, virtually every human interaction is easily identified as the conflicts occurring between the selfishness of individual-level selection attempting to integrate with and/or exploit the magnanimous requirements of group-level selection, where group-level selection produces the ubiquitous roles of tribalism without reason, i.e. the age-old problematic situation of social science attempting to resolve the self with society.
Incredibly, our species idiosyncratic nature determined through eusociality and tribalism “makes making” this simple observation about our own species ultra-social behavior almost impossible to the untrained eye. Nevertheless, through the lens of multi-level selection, the human condition can become utterly transparent; including focused with artificial selection and logic to a desirable new high-quality resolution and improved upon. Many have lamented, what is the use of predictive science, if we don’t use it to design a predictive sustainable human condition? It seems prudent that at the very least, we use our highest quality information and the predictive ability of science to design a predictive sustainable human condition projected out for the next ten to twenty years.
The alternative is to consider the human condition subject to long slow genetic natural selection, and therefore a virtually static and un-improvable situation, which would mean our ability to perform rapid progressive cultural evolution in response to global warming, is near impossible. We know however, through the potential of cultural evolution, that such a static situation is not the case. Moreover, we now know that only the influence of science-identified cultural evolution memes to replace obsolete genetic evolution genes is capable of determining cultural evolution through unification with governing physics to design sustainable sentient intelligent biology in a timely manner that overcomes manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Instincts and institutions determined by tribalism without reason and a hunting-gathering mode of production are no longer applicable or beneficial for the multi-level selection of a eusocial global technological society. Economic libertarians therefore, currently need to resolve specialization, innovation, and exchange determined by tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason with the group-level selection of a eusocial global technological society that causes manmade yet physics-governed global warming. The policies of “Ron Paul” economic libertarianism determined through a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that cannot possibly be scientifically correct, identify that they’re “objectivist” philosophy is nowhere close to performing that high-quality resolution.
Our species entire ability to social intelligence is exemplified by making this successful sustainable transition to a truthful sustainable definition of liberty, which overcomes manmade yet physics-governed global warming. Nothing about economic libertarianism remains valid unless it provides for every universal physical human need first - including achieves environmental sustainability - and then offers its fruits to those who wish to participate above and beyond required sustainable baseline functionality second. Only then will Homo sapiens be freely and successfully participating in the free marketplace of ideas. Our biological determinism through tribalism without reason will however, severely test achieving such logical sustainable scrutiny, and it will require changing our behavior to convince anyone.
Because of eusocial technological globalization affecting the entire global ecosystem, I propose the evolutionary dynamic between individual-level selection and group-level selection to constitute the need for “two economies”. This solution addresses three qualities:
Provides a state-of-the-art information-based solution through artificial selection and logic, which moves the human condition forward 200,000 years to reflect the contributions of Science.
Reconciles the historical group-level promotion of collectivism to enable successful tribalism. I.e., Universalism eliminates the nasty attributes of church-state exceptionalism to negatively affect society that determined Old World tribalism, and replaces social and economic stratification that enables aggressive trading and warmongering with sustainable social design protocols. (Are we tired yet, of living in poverty and sending our children to die, to enable insane church-state exceptionalism without reason?)
Resolves the problem of secular socialism being attacked and compromised by both the individual-level selection (libertarian) and group-level selection (church-state exceptionalism) of conservative male dominance hierarchy determined by Old World tribalism.
The first prioritized economy maintains sophisticated enlightened group-level humanitarianism, including social and environmental sustainability. The second economy remains appealing to the vestigial artifact of primitive individual-level selection determined through past lesser tribal ability, which “box” we certainly seem to have a difficult time escaping. Individual-level and group-level selection do not need to be mutually exclusive. Eusocial technological globalization needs to find sustainable resolution through artificial selection and logic in the physics-governed indifferent universe, and then sexual selection can function autonomously without burning the world down while reproducing obsolete biological determinisms.
The conflict between the selfishness of individual-level selection attempting to integrate with the magnanimous requirements of group-level selection is profound. Wilson identifies that very few species achieve evolutionary success through eusociality, and the alternative is to abandon the group and revert to a solitary individual existence. We see evidence of this reversion to a solitary individual existence (i.e. “The Wilding of America”) primarily among power-wielding males and the women that achieve security supporting them. Examples span status quo democrats, survivalists, libertarianism, exceptionalism, authoritarian bubble psychology, and anti-globalization, but also in those poor individuals that have become homeless or otherwise neglected.
Of course, our species eusociality causes these conservative institutions to function within the tenets of memes promoting like-minded groups, and therefore the undercurrents of individualistic reversion manifest in conflicted and confounded relationship with the institutions of group-level selection. These institutions identify exceptionalism, entitlement, and even self-diminishment, spanning those that just gave-up under the relentless pressures of exploitation and oppression, to religious vows of poverty, to Theo-conservative underground bunkers that wait for the “End of Days”, to the backyard missile silos of economic libertarian exceptionalism. Suicide is defiantly a “sin” - but not a religious sin - rather a secular social design-failure sin.
The most profound tragedy facing the human condition is that fossil fuels are entirely responsible for globalization and the diminishment of tribalism, yet fossil fuels are grossly unsustainable (serving biological and human fallibility, peak oil, and environmental damage), and without a worldwide sustainable energy source the human condition will instantaneously revert to logistical subdivision and tribalism.
I understand the “rational optimist” wishing to avoid this fate with the only mechanism proven so capable - market forces enabled by poorly determined political democracy amplified to heavenly status at the end of a barrel of a gun through fossil fuels and mechanized armies. Nevertheless, betting the fate of humanity on a techno-fix enabled through continued reliance on unsustainable fossil fuels and poorly determined violence, money, and knowledge, seems counterintuitive on multiple levels.
The economic libertarian will have to make a much better argument to convince me that accommodating specialization, innovation, and exchange in relationship to tribalism without reason, church-state exceptionalism without reason, and a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty that enables the falsehood of religion and laissez faire capitalism through the same definition of liberty - which is scientifically impossible - constitutes the answer to the human condition. A much better “status quo” Theory of Everything for social science is to simply identify ubiquitous tribalism without reason determined through the attributes of individual-level selection integrating with and/or exploiting the requirements of group-level selection (eusociality), where markets have always exploited the individual to promote the group-level selection of church-state exceptionalism without reason. This is “the fire” that some economic libertarians wish to keep alive, because these obsolete false damaging biological determinisms are all our species understands.
Sending men to the Moon and scientific instruments to Mars named “Liberty” and “Opportunity”, while failing to produce a truthful sustainable terrestrial domestic solution, simply compounds evidence upon our species inability and desperation. Whether “the fire” we understand is through our obsolete biological determinism or through a technological blowhole, Homo sapiens are far from lighting the correct cognitive fire through artificial selection and logic.
Prudence determines that I cannot accept the “rational optimist” dare, and instead must design a solution not reliant on a definition of individual liberty that enables the falsehood of religion and growth-model laissez faire capitalism on a finite planet through the same definition, which cannot possibly be scientifically correct. I cannot accept the “solution” of market forces that have designed no solutions to enabling freedom of religion that remains illogical, easily exploitable, and causes physical damage, including where capitalism never self-regulates to favor truth, or social and environmental sustainability. I cannot accept continuing to enable church-state exceptionalism without reason to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence.
Possibly, the greatest tragedy is that the bottom-up solutions of “technological capitalism” can never provide a solution to the top-down falsehood of freedom of speech that enables the illogic, falsehood, and physical damage of religion, including other social and economic problems caused by tribalism without reason. Alternatively stated, scientific positivism is incapable of providing benefit to a human condition determined by tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason.
Any regulation society does achieve is always imposed top-down by outraged citizens and democratic government responding to them, i.e. the status quo American Presidents cynic position “now make me do it”. My citizen outrage responding to such status quo cynicism - where political democracy is made dysfunctional by ultra-primitive tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason - has been made to develop the progressive political philosophy of Universalism, and progressive government through the Democracy of Science, which in point of fact invalidates the previous system in order to finish the pyramid and make a more perfect union. The situation of life and death natural selection existence is that serious, that bad (problematic), and currently that contrarian; poor social design, after all, eventually pisses-off the right guy.
Given the late global warming date of 2013, neither economic libertarianism nor freedom of speech determined through conventional political democracy is capable of producing a solution to tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason, either market-based or philosophical. For example, the worlds leading economic libertarian Ron Paul doesn’t believe in evolution. Additional evidence identifies The Family on C Street, Theo-conservative trickledown Reaganomics, and America’s vastly flawed interpretation of political democracy to serve false damaging subjectivity. Such “social design” provides nothing except evidence of foul play, where determining “winners and losers” constitutes a manmade perversion. The worst offence is routinely made by dolts that defend the status quo by claiming “life isn’t fair”, yet have no real clue why our actions cause life to not be fair.
Chart Demonstrating Two Parallel State of Nature Causalities
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Chapter 6
Conclusion
New Conclusion Summary Points
Summarized Evolutionary Biology Point: “The Behavioral School” vs. “The Naturalist School”
Don’t misunderstand “Nature vs. Nurture”. Anthropologists are expert in demonstrating that nurture is abundant in the diversity of human cultures. In addition, the point of genetics isn’t to blame the individual through genetically determined behavior; the point of genetics is to identify the evolutionary biology of instincts that serve ubiquitous human tribalism.
The point of the Naturalist School is that each culture is determined by ubiquitous human tribalism that follows eusociality, the determinism of territorial radiuses, and resource acquisition, which produces conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, including now science. My development of the Naturalist School is to demonstrate the immense influence of physics-governed determinisms to affect human instincts, and that the diversity of nurture works within these determinisms. Understand that human cultural diversity and nurture works within physics-governed determinisms to affect conservative human instincts.
Summarized Economic Point: “Progressive” Capitalist Economics vs. Steady State Economics (Competition vs. Cooperation)
Progressive economists such as David C. Korten are expert in documenting the difference between “good capitalism” and “bad capitalism”, specifically economic libertarian Wall Street reform, and the old GDP benchmark. Included in this progressive group are Bill McKibben, Robert Reich, and Paul Krugman. Nevertheless, it is no longer truthful or accurate to defend the old progressive model of Keynesian economics, including the “good” aspects of Adam Smith, because they serve unsustainable growth-model economics.
Because growth-model economics serve the biological determinism of growth-oriented eusociality and tribalism, all these models of growth, no matter if they serve progressive ethics of equality are ultimately unsustainable, and cause conflict between nations. They follow models of tribal competition more than tribal cooperation.
Reductionism to physics identifies the realities of the entropy cycle applied to economics (Low Entropy Matter/Energy In - High Entropy Matter/Energy Out), which requires a lack of growth and an increase of regulation, moderation, and recycling. The natural beauty of this understanding is that it regulates and moderates the evolutionary arms race that causes intertribal conflict.
Summarized Evolutionary Biology Point: Progressive Cognitive Solutions vs. Solutions that Serve Human Tribalism
Currently, virtually all human behavior, no matter if it’s “progressive” or “conservative”, serves the same biological determinism of tribalism. One of the most significant applications is that of democracy, which simply serves the biological determinism of tribalism to produce a useless two party system that inevitably finds much common ground.
No real sustainable solutions will ever be achieved by serving the biological determinism of tribalism to produce a useless two party system that finds much in common through conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, including now science. The biological determinism of tribalism identifies the immense need to escape our instincts through progressive cognitive solutions, which I describe as a “top-down” solution, and will inevitably require revolution before achieving resolution.
Conclusion
America’s tribalism is immense; there is nothing “progressive” about America’s social design in this regard. The only thing that could be considered progressive is that America’s social design enables tribalism without reason better than others, which is why it found itself at direct odds with the atheistic socialism of communism. America’s church-state system excels at social design and statecraft that motivates an unscientific unregulated democracy to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. America’s accommodation of tribalism without reason is all-inclusive; it accommodates and encourages all tribalism without reason, but it must be tribalism without reason.
Now we know where the “universe as laboratory” experiment of accommodating and encouraging all tribalism without reason gets us: To “the more perfect union” of religio-economic and global warming horror. By accommodating tribalism without reason, America made a deal with the devil, and our contract is coming due. How Hell doth quicken the spirit.
Meanwhile, any tribalism with the slightest hint of reason - for example atheistic socialism – remains incompatible with a church-state system that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence in its pursuit of genetic expansion and territorial aggression. In addition, the atheistic socialism of communism remained tribal in nature; therefore it was protectionist and fiercely ideological in its pursuit of genetic expansion and territorial aggression. Both of these titans failed to produce a truthful sustainable solution to the human condition, because each failed to step outside of the box of tribalism without reason determined by the indifferent universe and mindless natural selection.
America’s tribalism without reason is immense, and no greater evidence exists than the proof provided by using the greatest wealth and plenty in human history to enable the ubiquitous roles of tribalism through conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics. America’s tribalism without reason has used the greatest wealth and plenty in human history to produce the military-industrial complex, a resurgence of fundamentalist religion to affect society and all three branches of government, highly partisan politics divided by militarism, religion, economics, and science, and the philosophy of economics to serve disparity in wealth and concentration of power on both sides of the same tribal isle.
American democracy has been diminished by disparity in wealth and concentration of power into pooling all its money into supporting the lesser of two evils, which causes real environmentalist and socialist Third Party reform to remain benched on the sidelines. Hypothesis identifies that disparity in wealth and concentration of power on both sides of the same tribal isle that diminishes democracy into serving the lesser of two evils is exactly what we would expect to see the biological determinism of tribalism without reason producing.
America has used the rhetoric and propaganda of liberty™, freedom™, and democracy™ to justify its tribalism without reason, and because Homo sapiens are so immensely biologically determined by natural selection through the ubiquitous roles of tribalism to produce conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, the American democracy has bought this falsehood, exploitation, and physical damage hook, line, and sinker. Tribalism without reason after all, is what natural selection has programmed us to identify with. If your politics enable tribalism without reason, then the assertions of fascism and tyranny may apply; however, if your politics enable atheism and environmentalism, the assertions of fascism and tyranny do not apply. Homo sapiens need to learn the difference between politics that enable tribalism without reason, and politics that enable truth, science, and sustainability.
The real definition of liberty is the ability to identify and choose the truth, yet meanwhile Homo sapiens ability to identify and choose the truth of the physics-governed natural hierarchy remains virtually nonexistent. In the land of truth the man with a single fact is King*, and the single truth of the physics-governed natural hierarchy produces a single thing: Anti-theist Eco-socialism, i.e. Universalism. Only the instinctual cynical defense of tribalism without reason would accuse science-based systems-based unification with the singular truth of the physics-governed natural hierarchy to produce anything but a flowering of sustainable new diversity and unprecedented happiness.
Meanwhile, our species understands nothing other than the ubiquitous roles of tribalism to produce conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics. Our species “Pleistocene obstinacy” remains trapped in a hunting-gathering time-warp that causes “biology with technology” to be massively incompatible with the physics-governed natural hierarchy, and consequently our species is sliding on the greased rails of obsolete biological determinism off the cliff of global warming oblivion.
It is entirely possible that the escalation of tribalism during the Cold War, including while dependent on fossil fuels, caused the damage and modern momentum that will produce the extinction of our species.
Environmental damage identifies mind-boggling pollution, habitat loss, biodiversity loss, over-farming, and resource depletion, and of course climate change and global warming. If populations were required to live off the land they occupied (this requisite addresses “beyond organic” farming such as the Polyface Farm in Virginia, and not shipping Green Bell Peppers 3000 miles), typically over 50% reduction in population would be necessary. The greatest wealth and plenty in human history has caused our genetic expansion and territorial aggression for limiting resources to be at an all-time high, instead of in all-time sustainable equilibrium. Clearly, obsolete brain-dead biological determinism quickly causes “paradise found to be paradise lost”*.
Modern momentum identifies the tribalism without reason of America to now set the world standard, where the ubiquitous roles of tribalism produces conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics. Worldwide movements now nearly ubiquitously covet American-style militarism, the protection and promotion of religion, conservative administrations, and austerity. An exception is the secular-progressive European Union, where centuries of monarchies infighting has caused a collective aversion to tribalism without reason.
During the greatest wealth and plenty in human history enabled by fossil fuels, American presidents continue to defend an unscientific unregulated fundamentalist interpretation of individual liberty to produce the highest disparity in wealth to poverty complimented by rampant religious fundamentalism to affect society and all three branches of government. American presidents have the gall to glorify the sacrifices and need for hard work from Americans to “remain competitive” determined by supply-side economics that over-deplete resources, advertize consumption incessantly, and over-produce to maintain low production wages abroad and enable low consumption wages domestically at the dollar store.
Spanning the Greeks, Romans, and our “Arrogant Capital”*, such self-sacrifice, hard work, and competitiveness has been driven by church-state tyrants, yet qualified as ambition and progress. It is now clear that this social design serves the biological determinism of church-state systems that must turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. In addition, there is deep “eusocial-tribal/colony” biological determinism at work to cause organisms as physiologically disparate as ants and humans to produce the identical behavior of militarism and slavery of the sacrificial masses. Consequently, hypothesis identifies that church-state tyrants promoting themselves and society through ambition and progress serve biological determinism equal to the specialization of soldier ants.
The biological determinism of tribalism without reason produces conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, and those that gravitate to fundamentalist church-state authoritarianism demonstrate instinct to combine these institutions into a single linear identity. One might think it exciting for a secular-progressive to attain the ability to condemn social and economic conservatives with biological determinism equal to specialization within an ant colony, for example generalized as soldier ants. Such ability however, identifies us all with the same biological determinism, with only limited ability for some to step outside of this “box” and comment on the human condition. Believe me, I don’t blame anybody for the way they are, and accept all with open arms; conversion to science-based systems-based social design remains an option. Meanwhile, and nevertheless, in an age of cosmological and biological determinisms that identifies manmade yet physics-governed global warming, standing behind an unscientific unregulated democracy to proclaim a “fair experiment” remains vastly off the mark of truth and sustainability.
Watching Obama get moist while fawning over the American public voting a African-American in office and then subscribing to conservative interpretations of economics that continue to cause class poverty and suicide has certainly produced a grim definition of a progressive democrat. The more oratory and professorial his speeches are, the more I feel conservative interpretations of economics grinding my life into the gutter. The first term avoided the economy, and focused on enabling the corporate profits of the insurance industry. The second term is focusing on global warming to avoid the economy. In an age of cosmological and biological determinisms, not being a secular progressive ideologue means enabling conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics as a single linear identity to produce the biological determinism of a useless democracy.
Is it that important for the first African-American President to maintain a conservative interpretation of economics? Why?* Spanning the Greeks, Romans, and our “Arrogant Capital”, there’s a laundry list of freshly minted tyrants both Black and White that defended the church-state through conservative interpretations of economics, so there’s really nothing novel about it. Nothing about the Obama’s “chiefs and priests” conservative interpretation of economics and religion inspires any secular progressive hope whatsoever. Such self-deception, statecraft, and abuse have done little except pile straw on the anthill of human tribalism to enable the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason, where such falsely determined empires always fail. The ubiquitous failure of church-state empires is a study unto itself, and my analysis rings a death knell over the coffin of reasons. Currently, our obsolete damaging biological determinism applied to “biology with technology” has caused the failure of the entire human species with global warming.
As a President, I can’t imagine not performing an end-run around capitalism entrenched by 30 years of Theo-conservative trickledown Reaganomics, including 8 years of the Bush Administration, with a New New Deal that knocked on peoples doors and satisfied universal physical human needs with the fierce urgency of poverty and panic attacks. The wealthy however, don’t understand poverty and panic attacks; they live the life of insulated protected chiefs and priests enabled by an unscientific unregulated definition of fundamentalist individual liberty, and they promote that definition of liberty, and the problems never get solved, and the problems never end.
The wealthy will say they don’t understand poverty and panic attacks because they managed to surface above water in a human condition determined by an unscientific unregulated definition of fundamentalist individual liberty, and now call that liberty home, and justice, and the way the world works. Meanwhile, the system that is at immense criminal fault can never be at fault; consequently, by default, the individual must continue to be blamed, including appeased with rhetoric, propaganda, and religion. In an age of science, church-state systems that must turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence are so perverse they require the constant pounding of the highest authority figure in the land transmogrifying church-state exceptionalism without reason into “liberty”, “freedom”, and “democracy”.
I identify little ability to “secular-progressivism” while the human condition remains subject to conventional human tribalism. The biological determinism of tribalism causes “secular-progressives” to filter through the same funnel of instinctual conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture that conservatives do. Consequently, producing a solution to the human condition requires knowledge of human tribalism, and the ability to step outside this box designed by the indifferent universe and mindless natural selection.
Meanwhile, evolutionary biologists that are overly fond of having identified the process of mindless natural selection ubiquitously defend what mindless natural selection has produced. Consequently, evolutionary biologists routinely defend conservative market-based analysis of human specialization while failing to identify the biological determinism of human tribalism subject to a territorial radius as the clear equivalent of an ant colony subject to a territorial radius, including that specialization within “human ant colonies” conforms to instinctual conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture. Evolutionary biologists defend conservative market-based analysis of the human condition while failing to identify that human markets serve the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason that requires turning sovereign currencies, class poverty, and falsehood into violence, which has caused the mass extinction of species, human religio-economic horror, and global warming. What use then, is status quo evolutionary biology?
Between status quo politics and science, I find no truth or wisdom in this leadership. I don’t see any of our “leaders” produced by the biological determinism of tribalism without reason filtered through the funnel of instinctual conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture to possess the ability to produce a solution.
Producing a solution to the human condition will require a living walking cultural evolution of our species through artificial selection and logic. If my development of philosophy represents any truth and progressive ability in this regard, then I assure you virtually everyone can achieve such cultural evolution with a little study. Capitalism and religion are things to be abolished and abandoned. Human tribalism is something to be regulated in sustainable unification with the physics-governed ecosystem with science-based systems-based social design protocols. “Scientific socialism” is back ladies and gentlemen, and with a vengeance.
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I wish I could glorify natural selection with grandeur, but I can’t, I just can’t. Natural selection is a mindless process that causes Homo sapiens state of nature through tribalism without reason, and the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason. Cruelty and insanity is defended by the rule of law to enable the functional hypocrisy that maintains the church-state status quo. Even science serves this functional hypocrisy, and has been unable to produce objective sustainable social design. Homo sapiens have functioned in gross division with the requirements of the natural environment sufficient to cause global warming, so what objectivity or function can science assert to have provided the human condition? Science has served the national exceptionalism of tribalism without reason in all its manifestations hook, line, and sinker. What a burden to bear. Possibly, inability to bear this sadness will motivate our species progressive evolution to achieve a superior, truthful, sustainable state of nature.
Biology is competitive, yes, but how we choose to manage that competitiveness can certainly occur through artificial selection and logic absent from mindless ultra-primitive tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason. I witness our leaders serving this biological determinism with no self-awareness of it, and consequently identify them to provide no truth, wisdom, or sustainability in their leadership. It should be clear that church-state exceptionalism without reason produces a perverse evolutionary arms race that is consuming our species and planet alive. Meanwhile,Homo sapiens already are the apex predator. We have already “won”; there is little benefit, and vast detriment, in continuing to follow the mindless ultra-primitive biological determinisms that produced us. I weep for our species, and want so much more; I want us to live in paradise forever.
“Tribalism without reason” is Homo sapiens anthill, Homo sapiens bee hive. Homo sapiens aren’t programmed the same as ants and bees; we use information-based existence to achieve a high degree of “functional subjectivity” that produces colorful variety of tribal design. Each colorful variety of tribal design is however, determined by the same life or death natural selection, where defending territorial radiuses predisposes us to embrace “the competition of division”. Meaning, without objectifying our biological determinisms, we can’t step outside the determinism of our cultural survival vehicles for one second. Tribes will speak different languages, promote different origin stories, and exist through petty feuds, raids, and revenge killings for centuries while existing only a mile apart, rather than perform unification between tribes.
The primitive biological determinism of tribalism without reason has produced the religio-economic and global warming horror of the 21st century; if we don’t use our big brains to fix this situation with artificial selection and logic, what will fix it? Mindless natural selection isn’t capable of fixing this biological determinism and consequence; mindless natural selection only has the ability to produce it, and reproduce it in a brain-dead instinctual manner that we find extremely pleasurable.
Natural selection is not our friend; natural selection caused Homo sapiens anthill. Natural selection causes Homo sapiensanthill to produce conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, which are not our friend because these institutions are incapable of solving religio-economic and global warming horror. Natural selection causes our politics and economics to serve tribalism without reason, and then causes our culture to vote for tribalism without reason, and we remain trapped in a closed loop of circular logic and negative feedback. I’m sure it’s quite a dilemma when neither natural selection nor a god is the answer to Homo sapiens problematic existence in the indifferent universe. Possibly, the reader is now aware of other solutions, including the importance of sheer force of will through study and science to overcome the adversity of the indifferent universe. Meanwhile, “What burden wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise”*.
Functional subjectivity through tribalism without reason worked for a long time, but not currently; “biology with technology” has exponentially magnified all our species faults and liabilities. Natural selection has produced Homo sapiens through ubiquitous tribalism, which identifies extensive biological determinism, including a massive liability when a mindless process produces ubiquitous instinctual tribalism that harbors lack of reason at its very core.
The liability of tribalism without reason has never surfaced before in relationship to global sustainability, because our ignorance and instincts were never able to affect the entire planetary ecosystem. Clearly however, tribalism without reason is immensely incompatible with technology based on fossil fuels that influences the physics-governed negative consequence of global warming. Consequently, we need to quite glorifying “colorful variety of tribal design” that each represents ubiquitous instinctual tribalism without reason, and begin glorifying an objectification of our species function in the indifferent universe through artificial selection, logic, and wisdom.
Homo sapiens share nearly identical physiology and we are 99.7% genetically identical, so our species “specialization” is information-based existence. Information-based existence enables human programmability and re-programmability that allows Homo sapiens some ability to move in and out of the various roles of tribalism. Unfortunately, we have conflated individual success through upward mobility (which appeases and micromanages the desires of individual-level selection) to reflect the success of our entire social design (group-level selection) determined by tribalism without reason.
Conflating individual success through the upward mobility of disparity in wealth and concentration of power enabled by capitalism to reflect the success of group-level selection identifies the hypothesis of appeasing male dominance hierarchy acting in individual-level selection abstraction from the actual requirements of group-level selection. The requirements of group-level selection are of course now identified through species unification with the physics-governed natural hierarchy, which is an environmental influence that male dominance hierarchy has never had to negotiate and perform adaptation in relationship to before. Consequently, in actuality, and unfortunately, our individual, tribal, and species efforts only move sideways and down-ways through tribalism without reason to produce the conservative economics of laissez faire capitalism, regardless if a statistical few manage to live in luxury.
The ability for the individual to fail in capitalism is not the equivalent of falsification in the scientific method to determine “a fair experiment”, nor truth, liberty, or justice, and certainly not progress. Religio-economic horror for the multitude, and global warming horror for everyone, determines that identification. The ability for the individual to fail in capitalism is designed by:
· Church-state systems that require turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence.
· Deep “eusocial-tribal/colony” biological determinism that causes organisms as physiologically disparate as ants and humans to produce the identical behavior of militarism and slavery of the sacrificial masses.
· Sexual selection that excludes and abuses.
· Theo-conservative trickledown Reaganomics that stratifies and abuses.
· Tribalism without reason, for example found in Hollywood, Wall Street, The Right Wing, and Theo-conservative Corporatocracy, which promotes certain tribes with impunity, blessing, and corporate socialism, in a system that encourages and accommodates all tribalism without reason.
· Supply-side economics that over-depletes resources, advertizes consumption incessantly, and over-produces products to maintain low production wages abroad and low consumption wages at home enabled by the dollar store.
· Predatory Wall Street, the predatory financialization of the economy, and predatory credit and lending.
· “Secular progressive” democrats that enable conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics as much as regressive religionist mossback conservatives.
Demonstratively, the more energy you introduce into the equation of “tribalism without reason” the more pollution, habitat loss, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, class poverty, and world war church-state exceptionalism causes while turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence in the pursuit of genetic expansion and territorial aggression. Nevertheless, we routinely listen to “successful people” with ears that instinctually translate the lead of tribalism without reason into fool’s gold. Meanwhile, there’s little more comical to me than a “motivational speaker”, in nearly all their manifestations.
Homo sapiens rapidly need to come to terms with natural selection determinism that is severely negatively affecting the ability of “biology with technology” determined through fossil fuels to achieve social and environmental sustainability. Nothing about this equation is sustainable; neither the primitive biological determinism of biology through the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason to affect “biology with technology”, nor intrinsically unsustainable fossil fuels, nor especially the combination of the two. I submit that this exponential negative consequence is how Homo sapiens managed to nearly ruin the entire planet and possibly cause our own species extinction in just over two centuries of poorly qualified individual liberty.
Fear not however; functional subjectivity through tribalism without reason will immediately begin “working again” as soon as globalization through fossil fuels fails, with only the consequences of global warming for neo-tribalism to contend with in “Madmaxville”. Forgive me if I don’t see the grandeur of such a condition determined by the mindless process of natural selection to produce ignorance, division, and punishment as Homo sapiens “natural habitat”.
I have made a case for how natural selection determinism has produced our species, and what this means for “biology with technology”. Our species “Umwelt” is determined by eusociality and tribalism, which causes our perception of the world through an idiosyncratic subjective “social-mechanical” relationship, instead of through a sophisticated objective “mechanical-social” relationship. This “social-first” circumstance is naturally produced due to natural selection, including ignorance of the cosmological and biological processes that produced us. Nonetheless, “tribalism without reason” is incompatible with “biology with technology”, which now interacts with the “mechanical-first” aspects of the physics-governed indifferent universe.
Consequently, our species must now improve on two distinct levels. First, overcoming the biological determinism of tribalism without reason, and second, bringing that new sophisticated objective product absent from former liabilities into sustainable unification with governing physics to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming. The world doesn’t have a problem, Homo sapiens do. Homo sapiens have a distinct problem with both cosmological and biological determinism, and this will require Homo sapiens objectifying our species relationship with the natural environment to understand that a mindless process produces an equally brain-dead instinctual product, which has caused “biology with technology” to be devastatingly inconsistent with the objectivity of governing physics.
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Unfortunately, our species is just as biologically determined as every other species produced by natural selection from single celled organisms*. It is clear that natural selection has “stamped out” human tribalism subject to a territorial radius just as deterministically as it stamps out anthills and bee hives subject to a territorial radius. Meanwhile, it is popular to defend human existence as absent from, or different from, the biological determinisms of other creatures such as ants and bees. For example, “reprogrammable” human specialization through information-based existence is markedly different from other species specialization (ants and bees however, can also be “reprogrammable” through chemical changes). Nevertheless, our species is demonstrated to be just as biologically determined by natural selection stamping out tribalism, as natural selection stamping out anthills and bee hives. Consequently, just as the more energy you give an anthill, the more ants reproduce their biological determinism to achieve super-colony status; the more energy you give tribalism without reason, the more humanity reproduces its biological determinism to achieve empire status through church-state exceptionalism without reason. It’s an old joke, but “poop in = poop out”.
The relevant comparison between such “eusocial/tribal” species is now overwhelmingly clear: Nesting (tribalism/colonies) and defense (militarism), including genetic expansion and territorial aggression (i.e. “capitalism”) that exploits the sacrificial masses through slavery and social stratification to achieve the increasing specialization of “elites”. The comparison between species can be taken farther however, where from a drop of mold in a Petri dish to human tribalism on planet Earth, biology is competitive and behaves predictably by consuming resources to dominate the environment genetically and territorially. Homo sapiens are the first species on Earth capable of objectifying this circumstance determined by mindless natural selection, and performing a superior “Homo sapiens-sympathetic” solution through artificial selection and logic, including a solution that is sympathetic to biodiversity.
Consequently, there is little “efficiency” to be gained through the comparison of “eusocial/tribal” species. First, becauseHomo sapiens now identify a new way forward unlike any other species, and second because natural selection has produced human nesting and defense, including genetic and territorial expansion, through tribalism absent from the “objectivity” of anthills and bee hives. In Homo sapiens case, natural selection has ubiquitously produced “tribalism without reason”, which has produced the ubiquitous genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason. Our species suffers from the same mindless natural selection-determinism to produce tribalism as mindless natural selection-determinism produces anthills and bee hives; however, Homo sapiens tribalism doesn’t function through the “mindless objectivity” of ants and bees, it functions through the “mindless subjectivity” of church-state exceptionalism without reason.
There is no “grandeur” in serving the biological determinism of tribalism without reason, nor is this biological determinism “better” or “more palatable” than the objectivity of anthills and beehives. If we judge success by longevity, the “mindless objectivity” survival strategy of ants and bees crushes newcomers Homo sapiens, including maintains their advantage while Homo sapiens burn themselves out with global warming. Bridging the gap between sustainable “mindless objectivity” and the “mindless subjectivity”* that has enabled technology requires two things: a big brain, and the ability to objectify our biological function.
If we cannot objectify our biological function to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming, Homo sapiensdo enjoy the luxury of insanity during the drama of multi-level selection subject to tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason. If I might draw influence from Derrick Jensen* Homo sapiens give good PTSD. The only possible redeeming quality of human specialization is rejecting the tyranny of mindless natural selection to produce ubiquitous tribalism without reason, reversing our species relationship with the tyranny of mindless natural selection, and performing a superior social design solution through artificial selection and logic.
Natural selection causes biology to be deterministic, where the ubiquitous genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason has locked us in an evolutionary arms race absent from reason. This circumstance has been enabled by fossil fuels to cause mechanized world war, competitive, exploitive, and destructive globalization through capitalism, and global warming. Homo sapiens tribalism without reason all around the world are each capable of super-colony status, and each capable of social and environmental destruction determined by the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason. If for example Homo sapiensdiscovered an infinite free sustainable power source, our species biological determinisms would currently channel that power into serving the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason - still locked in an evolutionary arms race absent from reason - to reproduce the same near instantaneous disaster of unsustainable competitive globalization through religio-economic capitalism, resource depletion, pollution, and world war.
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A great tragedy exists regarding Homo sapiens baby-steps to understand natural selection. Fall on hard times caused by tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason - which is virtually inevitable for the sacrificial masses - and no atheists are there with outstretched arms to console you. DSHS doesn’t default to “Atheists Anonymous”, the church-state defaults to Alcoholics Anonymous, and other Christian outreach programs. There is no church-state administered “Department of Secular Human Services”, because the church-state predates on your misery to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. Consequently, nearly every church-state authoritarian demonstrates instinctual allegiance to conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics, and predation and abuse await the sacrificial masses that fall to interrogation by the brain-dead instinctual church-state.
Until now, atheists have subscribed to a primitive “gladiator” conception of natural selection, including through capitalism, which nonetheless served tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason. This is unfortunate, because social science through reductionism to physics clearly identifies multi-level selection through both atheism andeco-socialism to avoid the church-state religio-economic consequences that atheists criticize. Darwin ingeniously identified the need for “Mutual Aid”, where favoring the individual-level selection of tyrants is non-conducive to the collective requirements of group-level selection. Learning how natural selection determines us, but not succumbing to this primitive diminishment through tribalism without reason while maintaining the grace of objectivity that benefits our entire species, is a new skill that we all need to learn with the fierce urgency of now.
There is great irony about social science through reductionism to physics to identify “The New Biological Model”. I will not divulge all of it. Easily, one great irony is questioning the wisdom of performing a solution through a progressive cultural evolution of our species that functions in virtually direct opposite from what natural selection has produced, rather than accommodate what natural selection has produced as an apologist would. As a leader I ask a lot: I push; I drive; I challenge; I require excellence; I require taking ownership; I require a “110% effort” to achieve progressive cultural evolution; I require improvement; all in relationship to achieving truth, sustainability, and happiness.
Consider however, that virtually all philosophers and scientists have sought in vain the knowledge that we now commonly possess, spanning cosmological determinisms to evolutionary biology determinisms. Consequently, many still believe that if we can simply identify the truth – whatever it is – we will have attained enlightenment, and like going to heaven can rest easy basking in the glory of unification with the truth. As they say however, there’s no rest for the wicked, and our species eusocial/tribal “Umwelt” is idiosyncratically and technologically exponentially wicked.
So, the great irony about social science through reductionism to physics and The New Biological Model is that we have identified the truth. The truth identifies natural selection producing eusociality, and tribalism without reason, including the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason. There is however, no other correct accurate way to say it, except that this truth simply isn’t good enough: it simply won’t do, or “be” as it were, i.e. this unfortunate evolutionary circumstance has produced manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Nevertheless, if our species does fail, and end, we will largely have done nothing wrong. We have acted primitively, and unwisely, and science, technology, and fossil fuels did exponentially magnify our species faults. Nonetheless, we have simply followed our natural selection-determined genetic and “cultural survival vehicle” programming. Unfortunately, I don’t think this understanding is going to make most people feel better about themselves, or global warming, which is an unfortunate result of science and technology subject to Homo sapiens “Pleistocene obstinacy”*.
Our species can now identify that the mindless primitive natural selection process that produced us isn’t in point of fact good enough. Our species is consequently significantly compromised in ability to deal with the evolutionary predicament we currently find ourselves in. The biological determinism of tribalism without reason and instincts determined by a hunting-gathering mode of production is now grossly negatively affecting our ability to sustainable global eusocial technological civilization. Our ability to identify this biological determinism however, also identifies that our exceptional species has earned the right to step back, stand on shoulders, observe with wisdom, and make scientifically correct adjustments to our destructive momentum through brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason.
Even when we identify the natural physics-governed cause and effect hierarchy to produce the truth over a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy, this truth still isn’t good enough when qualified through the past lesser ability of mindless natural selection to produce brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason. Only a superior cognitive-based science-based systems-based effort will design predictive positive cause and effect consequence from the physics-governed indifferent universe. Truly, no more significant period of human history has ever existed than now - through steadily encroaching global warming, and the transition from low-tech tribalism to high-tech universalism - to require philosophy and science be integrated through our species namesake: wisdom.
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What’s the most surprising skill/ability I have developed from my studies? I am amazed that I am beginning to see daily activity in real-time constituting actions of individual-level selection and/or group-level selection, including where these two interests exploit each other.
Recently a sports-fan friend of mine commented that he had recently seen an amazing football game, possibly the best of his entire life. Almost immediately however, he downplayed the occurrence and insisted that the game really didn’t mean anything to him. His reasoning however, betrayed his anxiety, which was, the game didn’t mean anything to him because the teams involved were from states “far away”.
As identified, the role of sport facilitates the function of tribalism, so my friend felt a little guilty for patronizing a different tribe, and felt compelled to reestablish his local tribal allegiance with me. Sitting there, listening to him, I was playing the role of tribal functionary, determiner of treason or defection, and with the nodding of my head, gate-keeper to reintegration with the local tribe. I could have pushed his buttons by debating his and/or my allegiance to the local team, but that is mean and a waste of time. I could have verbally reassured him by emphasizing both of our allegiance to the local team. Instead, I just nodded my head.
Were all being good little tribalists all the time, whether we know it or not. Even if I hadn’t been able to objectify through evolutionary biology the sports exchange I was having with my friend, I would have still been sitting there nodding my head, and reassuring his reentry into the tribe, because I have already done my information/reputation assessment of my friend and know him to be an upstanding member of the local tribe.
So why would one such as my friend, a well-established member of the local tribe, become flustered and emotional about downplaying the significance of patronizing a different tribe’s warriors? It seems clear that we have little ability to control how we feel about things, and our feelings directly represent our instincts, which are of course determined by tribalism developed in response to the pressures of life and death natural selection.
We are a species of “drama queens” communicating our feelings to achieve successful tribalism developed in response to the pressures of life and death natural selection, which explains our ultra-sociality. Alternatively stated, verbalizing the pressures of life and death natural selection in response to eusociality and tribalism produces ultra-sociality. My sports-friend example identifies that, as long as a person feels guilty for their indiscretion, for example patronizing a foreign tribe, and repents, and reestablishes their good standing with the male dominance hierarchy, they are forgiven because our tribe regains a sacrificial individual. Can anyone say “patriarchal deity worship subject to either salvation or vindictive abandonment and abuse”?
Nevertheless, the guilty are commonly forgiven, no less so unfortunately than for laissez faire capitalism to predate on and diminish into patronizing the strip-mall of bottom-feeding business models, where we all ubiquitously wish each other “good luck” without meaning it. This is what a church-state that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence diminishes us to, qualified as “objectivism” in capitalism to determine “liberty and justice for all”, and to demonize atheistic socialism as “evil”. I know evil when I see it, and I see it in the brain-dead biological determinism of church-state exceptionalism without reason.
Per my sports-friend example, communicating our feelings clearly aids in the management of group-level selection tribalism, including individual-level selection self-preservation (which seems a good reason to develop language, including rhetoric and deception, for example “politics”). Certainly our feelings want to come bursting out, as demonstrated by my sports-friend, and for example, through nonverbal communication and body language, including through music and dance. Dance for example, promotes the individual-level selection physical fitness of potential mates, and human condition entertainers promote the attributes of group-level selection.
Multi-level selection clearly requires individual-level selection to frequently promote group-level selection. This is however, certainly a grim circumstance for the secular-progressive individual subject to church-state exceptionalism without reason. Interests as diverse as economic libertarians and atheistic socialists each despise this circumstance; such diverse criticism surely identifies significant chinks in church-state armor. We commonly say strong individuals make strong groups, yet we determine strong individuals by the tribal ethics of group-level selection determined through conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics that serve church-state exceptionalism without reason. That is not strength to me; that is folly and perversion of both the individual and the group. Unlike economic libertarians that find solace in capitalism, my intelligence serves none of these conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics, so my strength is forced to lie fallow elsewhere and serve different wisdom and motivation. I would like to see a new dance expressing the joy of secular-progressives no longer subject to conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics to enable church-state exceptionalism without reason, that would be Futterwacken* indeed.
My new abilities cause me to see tribal interactions happening all around me in real-time, and can quantify individual examples in real-time. Our feelings reflect our instincts that reflect tribalism, so when our feelings cause us to speak, our reasoning betrays our instincts determined by tribalism (including without reason). Consequently, adult conversations typically revolve around individual-level selection and the eusociality of the nuclear family qualifying interpretations of the ubiquitous roles of tribalism, which commonly debate conservative interpretations of militarism (and sports), religion, politics, economics, and culture. In addition, youthful conversations typically revolve around individual-level selection and the eusociality of the nuclear family qualifying interpretations of dating and human condition entertainers. Once this biological determinism is understood, semantically, human conversations become predictable, boring, and incapable of producing a solution to tribalism without reason. (That being said, I thoroughly enjoy the brief connections of stop-and-chats about virtually anything.)
Witnessing these tribal relationships occurring all around us all the time also means witnessing degrees of life and death natural selection occurring all around us all the time. At the individual-level selection and eusocial nuclear family level our conversations don’t commonly play out to produce instantaneous “death” results (we consider this high drama), but rather produce our cumulative “low drama” ability to achieve “life” results through daily tribal function. It’s not hard to understand then, during our cumulative “low drama” ability to daily tribal function, and rarely enough “life or death”, why conversations that reveal intentions can become so emotional so quickly, including why fear, anger, and violence bubble underneath the surface of “civilization” and erupt into instant confrontation.
It’s also not hard to understand why human conversations subject to the ubiquitous roles of tribalism that debate conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, are incapable of producing a solution to tribalism without reason. It’s not hard to understand why all our chatter and CRT addiction watching human condition entertainers remains incapable of communicating a mechanical-social group-level selection solution to manmade yet physics-governed global warming. Alternatively, if the “mindless objectivity” of ants could identify governing physics, all their chatter would be doing is producing a collective unified solution to global warming.
Social engineering now identifies:
· Our instincts determined through traditional tribalism.
· The attributes of individual-level selection determined through traditional tribalism.
· The attributes of group-level selection determined through traditional tribalism.
· Our brain chemistry and psychology at different life-stages, including the difference between each sex.
· Traditional tribal roles and relationships.
In each case however, these traditional behaviors are being challenged by modern civilization spanning progressive civil rights to “biology with technology” that causes manmade yet physics-governed global warming. So, merely being able to identify these qualities isn’t a solution in itself. Identifying these qualities provides useful reductionism for further synthesis between sociobiology and astrobiology; social science is now passing from “observing to understanding to engineering”*. Producing a solution now requires managing these qualities to achieve social and environmental sustainability, i.e. physiosociobiology and the political philosophy of universalism.
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What am I excited about? One aspect of the cosmologically and biologically determined existence of Homo sapiens is the product of individual-level selection and group-level selection successfully integrating through cognitive-based information-based adaptation. This “pre-adaptation” of multi-level selection through cognitive-based information-based adaptation identifies that our species is primed and ready to perform the next evolutionary step, over and above terrestrially-determined mindless natural selection. This ability is to intelligently integrate the attributes of multi-level selection with the requirements of physics-governed selection in the indifferent universe (i.e. physiosociobiology and universalism). Possibly, this ability will produce the next evolution of our species.
Integral to this ability will be reverse engineering a sustainable Spaceship Earth, where our species idiosyncrasy and anthropocentrism are served through the institutions of food, water, shelter, sex, education, and art in sustainable biocentrism with the physics-governed natural hierarchy. Reverse engineering a sustainable Spaceship Earth identifies initially producing two economies. The first economy addresses the institutions of food, water, shelter, sex, education, and art to achieve social and environmental sustainability, while the second economy achieves “free market” specialization, innovation, and exchange in sustainable unification with the first economy.
By abandoning tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason that requires turning money, poverty, and falsehood into violence, it is simple and logical to abandon the construct of money, and enable both primary and secondary economies through a moneyless resource-based economy. Through such artificial selection and logic, sexual selection can function autonomously from obsolete individual-level selection that burns the world down while acquiring the “peacock’s tail”, including reproducing group-level selection through the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason.
What am I afraid of - not a manmade afterlife Hell - I can assure you. I’m afraid that the human condition losses all context and purpose absent from life and death natural selection determined through tribalism without reason, and false damaging institutions. Consequently, our conception of liberty determined through tribalism without reason and false damaging institutions is defended by perennial militarism and religion that suffers the fool of revolving door politics up to a point, including by poorly qualified evolutionary biology, economics, and democracy to assert “the way the world works”.
Chart Demonstrating the Hierarchy of Human Tribalism
End chart.
Nothing about the primitive biological determinism of tribalism without reason plays nice with other tribes. Group-level selection through insane falsehood to determine national exceptionalism and violence remains lurking beneath every “rational” transaction. Every corporation is a mini church-state unto itself, demonstrating conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture. The ultra-primitive biological determinism of tribalism without reason is all our species knows, and all we understand; tribalism without reason is our species “Umwelt”, and we remain evolutionarily blind to stepping outside of this “cultural survival vehicle” for one second.
The primitive biological determinism of tribalism without reason doesn’t lend itself to global regulation that would produce a level playing field for capitalism. Tribalism without reason doesn’t lend itself to global democracy that would enable global peace, or a global rule of law that would enable a collective effort to overcome social and environmental abuses. Consequently, Homo sapiens super-colony ambition is not sustainable on a finite planet. Human ambition and “Protestant work-ethic”* does little but pile straw on Homo sapiens anthill of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism, which is socially and economically exploitive, and commonly horrific, including environmentally unsustainable, i.e. manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
It is now clear why those that don’t pile straw on Homo sapiens anthill of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism are demonized, spanning “slackers”, “welfare socialists”, “peaceniks”, and “environmentalists”, including the poor and homeless. Instinctual emotional outbursts and abuse await those that don’t pile straw on Homo sapiens anthill of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism, as a matter of life and death natural selection that rewarded a larger tribe and larger military with survival over the territorial enemy.
Consequently, we are instinctually averse to those that don’t pile straw on Homo sapiens anthill of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism, even when trickle-down and supply-side economics that enable the church-state to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence make wage-slavery virtually pointless to the point of panic attacks and suicide. Meanwhile, populations stew in their own ignorant mess, where coveting and hating what they see around them causes people to blame the individual next to them, while elites laugh all the way to the bank in gated communities by exploiting primitive biological determinism and ignorance.
The ultra-primitive biological determinism of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism is sexually entrenched in our instincts, and violence is intrinsic in religion, politics, economics, and culture to effectuate this biological determinism. Extremely few Homo sapiens can objectify the biological determinism and social design that produced them to avoid inflicting this Instinctual emotional outburst and abuse on those they perceive “slacking”, or “gaming the system”, or compromising conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture.
Both falsehood and violence in religion, politics, economics, and culture is demonstrated by:
· The primary purpose of religion is identified to bind a tribe in unity to defeat the territorial enemy, which freely uses false origin stories, false hierarchies and false governance, and threats of eternal torture against its own population to motivate individual-level selection self-sacrifice and achieve group-level selection unity and exceptionalism serving intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism.
· Politics freely uses a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of liberty against its own population to motivate individual-level selection, including self-sacrifice, and achieve group-level selection unity and exceptionalism serving intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism. Politics freely uses a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of liberty to enable a church-state system that must turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. Nevertheless, because Homo sapiens are biologically determined by tribalism without reason and conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, we willingly believe in this unscientific unregulated definition of liberty.
Unfortunately, our unscientific unregulated definition of liberty produces a useless tribally-determined democracy, which is incapable of overcoming the religio-economic horrors of tribalism without reason; incapable of not punishing those they perceive “slacking” or “gaming the system” and not piling straw on the anthill of militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism; incapable of not punishing those they perceive compromising conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture; and incapable of performing unification with the natural physics-governed hierarchy to produce truth and sustainability in social design.
· Economics serve the falsehood and damage of church-state systems that must turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence, including serve intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism. Therefore, economics must exploit conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture that serve church-state systems, which must turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence, including serve intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism.
Church-state systems specifically cannot function when middle class affluence affects the ability to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence, including when affluence produces increasing atheism and eco-socialism. Church-state systems are dependent on economics, for example trickle-down and supply-side economics, that design the stratification necessary to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence. Consequently, church-state systems are dependent on economics serving conservative low-tech interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture, including intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism. In addition, economics must exploit the natural environment, so church-state systems that enable the low-tech false origin stories and false supernatural god-governed hierarchy actually facilitate exploiting the natural environment.
Economics must also exploit, including micromanage, individual-level selection spanning disparity in wealth to the “self-sacrifice” (blame the individual psychology) that achieves the group-level selection unity and national exceptionalism of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism. Consequently, in every application, economics exploit conservative low-tech interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture that maintain the biological determinism of church-state systems and intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism.
All our social design does - all it can do - is exploit the falsehood and violence inherent in conservative low-tech interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture that maintain the biological determinism of church-state systems and intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism. Unfortunately, the only way the primitive biological determinism of tribalism without reason can function is when ignorance, falsehood, and violence flourish, and have room to grow. The millennia-long religio-economic horrors of the multitude are well-served by the nasty metaphor of tribalism without reason constituting an ugly encroaching thorn bush growing in an expanding pile of excrement.
Is there then, much hope for the well-armed nations of humanity subject to the ultra-primitive biological determinism of intrinsically militaristic and growth-oriented tribalism without reason on a finite planet? It seems likely that fossil fuels are simply magnifying our species primitive biological determinisms, faults, and liabilities, and consequently accelerating the ability to produce conflict and burn ourselves out on a small planet. ”Devil’s advocate” identifies that if you are a global player, immediate physical world domination - not economic - is the priority before the ugly process of globalization through capitalism causes regional conflicts and dysfunctional democracies slipping into global warming oblivion not worth owning, governing, or salvaging.
This tribally-determined world clearly isn’t “working”, i.e. manmade yet physics-governed global warming, including other social, economic, and environmental abuses. Nevertheless, I’m afraid that this unscientific unregulated human condition will continue to be exploited for profit by primitive capitalism defined as “objectivism”. I’m afraid that all the smartest men in the world are going to be invalidated once again as during the Copernican revolution, and Homo sapiens that weren’t as wise as we either prayed for or hoped for suffer premature global warming extinction in exemption from the five million years afforded a typical mammalian species.
What else scares me?
· Just five centuries ago the entire world was invalidated by the Copernican revolution over something as simple as heliocentrism, including that we though the world was flat. What will happen when the entire world becomes invalidated tomorrow, in the struggle between the natural physics-governed hierarchy and a supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy?
· At the late global warming date of 1989 (and without critiquing communism), a world view that affected half the world effectively ended. Meanwhile, quasi-communist/free market protectionist China and Russia held unprecedented joint war games exploring an American intervention with Taiwan.
· China’s middle class is exploding while developing increasing dependence on coal – the world’s most polluting fossil fuel.
· Russia is becoming an authoritarian state under Putin.
· Australia is becoming a devastated poster-boy for global warming.
· Both pole continents are under severe stress.
· Large percentages of people don’t believe in evolution, and do believe in Creationism.
· Evolutionary biology is still finding its feet.
· There are profound arguments that invalidate the current world view based on reductionism to natural selection and tribalism, including through reductionism to physics.
We have problems spanning our species ignorance of cosmological and biological determinisms, all the way to our species intelligent ability to deal with cosmological and biological determinisms even when we know what they are. I’m afraid we don’t have a consensus about how to manage global technological eusociality, and that natural selection will soon diminish us back into logistical subdivision and tribalism until extinction. I’m afraid we’re not any smarter than mindless natural selection, and correspondingly brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason will not design any superior truthful sustainable context and purpose for the human condition with intelligent artificial selection and logic. Again, I’m not seeing any leaders act with self-awareness of eusociality and tribalism, and instead simply following this biological determinism unconsciously while promoting the genetic expansion and territorial aggression of church-state exceptionalism without reason.
Consequently, consistent with the deterministic interrelationships of the roles of tribalism*, I’m afraid of science itself performing the ultimate hypocrisy. Science could perform the ultimate hypocrisy - by using the excuse of “natural selection” to justify what mindless natural selection has produced through tribalism without reason - and seek no improvement to the human condition. Such hypocrisy diminishes applications of positivism, i.e. artificial selection and logic, into reproducing primitive tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason, through conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, and economics. Such hypocrisy diminishes science into providing no objective sustainable social design, and instead serving tribalism without reason through the philosophical generalizations of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, “self-evident truths”, and “inalienable human rights” hook, line, and sinker.
I’m afraid that existence itself is a gigantic hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of an indifferent universe producing life – only for life to identify that while life can survive in the universe, life is not the purpose of the universe – and that the universe is simply a vessel that our species idiosyncratic existence clings to like a barnacle. As identified, self-evidently, the phenomenon of biology seems to play no role in the origin, management, or conclusion of the expanding cosmological model.
Meanwhile, like a barnacle clinging to microcosmic terrestrial natural selection, our species loses all context and purpose unless we remain clinging to terrestrial natural selection, for example to the biological determinism of tribalism without reason. To let go would require cultural evolution deciding not to be a clingy barnacle - but instead to be the vessel itself – where the vessel of science-based social design overcomes obsolete biological determinisms and designs a sustainable Spaceship Earth and human condition. (Darwin might have liked that one).
The evidence of natural selection is demonstratively mindless and capable of producing fish with both eyes grotesquely wrapped around to one side of their face, vestigial organs, brain-dead instinctual tribalism without reason, church-state exceptionalism without reason, and ultimately, evolutionary dead-ends. The destructive biological determinisms of tribalism without reason are inconsistent with the artificial selection and logic of predictive science, determinist physics, and a desirable human condition absent from the gross ideological falsehoods of church-state militarism, religion, disparity in wealth, concentration of power, and environmental abuse.
The economic libertarian religion* will suddenly discover - to their horror - that a simple correct meme can provide solutions absent from market forces determined by tribalism without reason, and church-state exceptionalism without reason. Instead, a simple correct meme freely designs anti-tribalism through species-wide unification with governing physics to achieve truthful eusocial technological globalization, and thereby achieves both social and environmental sustainability in one masterstroke that you will not find for sale at Fart-Mart.
Homo sapiens have not yet escaped the biological determinisms of tribalism, which is why the same social dynamics have escalated from tribes to chiefdoms to states*, and why national exceptionalism still competes over access to natural resources like oil, instead of pulling together as a single species. The beginning of a solution to the tribalism problem is already occurring however, through globalization; nevertheless, trading aggressively through capitalism will diminish or negate this effort.
Perhaps the ultimate human-condition tragedy is remaining subservient to mindless natural selection that cannot predict or plan for the future, which diminishes biological organisms to the harsh reality of evolutionarily-determined ignorant existence subject to limiting resources. The great hope of sentient intelligent Homo sapiens then is to find an infinite free sustainable energy source (i.e. deuterium-based cold fusion – or the star Sol) and pull together as a single species that no longer competes over limiting resources, and achieves social and environmental sustainability through unification with the standard candle of governing physics. Alternative to achieving such success, our species will instantaneously revert to logistical subdivision and tribalism, including being a very nasty territorial monkey (Homo horribilis) that will “rip each other’s faces off” with subjective social design that simply promotes tribal unity in a terrestrial microcosm. In this terrestrial microcosm, ignorance and subjectivity, including sex and violence, serve our species far better than scientifically identified global social unification with the singular physics-governed truth.
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The group-level selection requirements of a technological society have never surfaced before on Earth - and therefore we have no past examples to base precedent on – we must now invent our way forward. I offer this effort as an attempt at such invention; an invention consistent with known cosmological and biological determinisms that makes every effort to design a sustainable human condition in the indifferent universe. Invention however, is proven difficult. This effort will require wisdom - the wisdom to observe past evidence and qualify what factors produced this evidence - including identify how applicable maintaining those influences are moving forward, and of course identifying what newfound influences are more accurate and sustainable.
The problem is that our current species is tribal, which was caused by a simple logistical problem of low-tech societies only being able to cover a certain amount of ground in one day. Eusocial species are defined by the male, female, and offspring remaining together after mating, instead of dispersing back to solitary individual existence, and typified by building a nest and defending it. Meanwhile, a property owning democracy determined through a false damaging unscientific unregulated definition of individual liberty is vastly problematic. Consequently, the basic human nuclear family unit that represents our entire eusocial species ability to defending a nest has already been overly compromised by poor social design, which is why sociologists are so alarmed at the disintegration of the nuclear family. The reasons for the current disintegration of the nuclear family unit are clear: ultra-primitive tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason executed through Theo-conservative trickledown Reaganomics. The past 30 years of this abuse has destroyed FDR’s New Deal middle class, including the potential of America through FDR’s prescient “Second Bill of Rights”*.
It is commonly acknowledged that developing organic fire was instrumental in establishing our “human nests”, including provide the many benefits of fire spanning more easily digested cooked meat, all the way to developing technology. The need to provide resources for the tribal nests, combined with the limiting factor of only being able to cover a certain amount of ground in one day, designed an effective territorial radius. It is reasonable to assume that defending these territorial radiuses define the origins and instincts of the tribal human condition, including developing the specializations of math, geometry, language, economics, and politics. This “territorial radius” influence is currently evidenced today where indigenous peoples still exist - including in modern civilization – which is simply a shadowy reflection of low-tech eusocial/tribal determinisms.
Homo sapiens – i.e. “biology with technology” – now constitute a single global tribe; i.e. “One People on One Planet in One Reality”, which exert a worldwide influence on the delicately balanced nonlinear feedback loops of the global ecosystem, and must therefore find sustainable resolution between global technological eusociality and physics-governed physical reality. The quintessential example of course, is manmade yet physics-governed climate change and global warming. The math involved is either unification or division with governing physics to determine either truth and sustainability, or falsehood and premature extinction. Help can be on the way, if you vote for it consistent with the democracy of knowledge and the Democracy of Science.
Gray Heaven
We could describe existence as living in a sort of “gray heaven”, where we clearly exist temporarily through natural selection, but we also clearly want to live indefinitely in an idealized existence absent from the harsh realities of natural selection. The history of religion is replete with people asking gods for help that never comes. The Greeks attempted to objectify this conundrum and it produced stoicism and atheism, including poorly qualified democracy and Philosopher Kings. The Great Houses of Rome identify the biological determinism of individual-level selection tyrants qualified as ambition, including slavery and violence qualified as liberty and justice. Comparison to current church-state exceptionalism identifies modern individual-level selection tyrants still qualified as ambition, including labor-class slavery and the violence intrinsic to this biological determinism qualified as liberty and justice. Clearly, the only manifestation of the heaven that our species ubiquitously wishes for, which natural selection identifies we can only ever experience right here on Earth, is the one that we design for ourselves in relationship to cosmological and biological determinisms.
Natural selection has designed us to be one way, the way of tribalism without reason and church-state exceptionalism without reason. If Homo sapiens want to be another way, a way of manifesting the heaven that our species ubiquitously wishes for, such an effort will require artificial selection and logic to produce predictive positive consequence right here on Earth. Far superior to the Greek Republic and First Democracy, the Great Houses of Rome, and their grandchild the church-state exceptionalism of America, the progressive political philosophy of Universalism identifies how to achieve liberty and a free society through artificial selection and logic that produces sustainable positive consequence right here on Earth.
It is useful to identify a secular interpretation of “spirit”. A secular interpretation of “spirit” identifies, for example, when an animal’s “will-to-live” or “will-to-function” becomes “compromised” or “broken”. In addition, every happy high school emphasizes “school spirit”. But how can “school spirit” be identified in human existence? Of course, we automatically judge this quality by perceiving if a student’s “spirit” is happy, or sad, or energized and competitive; so it is clear that “school spirit” directly reflects real living human emotion responding to a real living human condition. A secular interpretation of “spirit” identifies living breathing human emotion, both positive and negative, in real life, right here on Earth, which is quite a useful interpretation of spirit.
Human existence is sufficiently empathetic through biophelia* and intelligence to perceive when almost any creatures spirit becomes broken, (however we probably demonstrate greater sensitivity towards other mammals). I don’t wish anyone to witness this condition, but when one does it is unmistakable: slouching body posture, dimming of the eyes, starring into nothing. For example, primate infants routinely become so after losing access to their mothers. Let’s hope – another accurate use of the concept of hope – that infant Homo sapiens isn’t becoming so broken and despondent after losing access to their Mother Natural Selection.
The Great Digital Programmers in the Sky
The “Many Worlds” theory or “multiverse” solves the problem of the initial conditions of physics occurring such as they did; including provides logic for “the anthropic principle”. Other theories have also contributed to explaining the initial conditions of physics. For example, “membrane collision” theory suggests that the initial conditions of one universe are “dragged” into the newly formed universe. Nevertheless, any subjectivity that the multiverse might cause the philosophy of physics is surely recovered in objectivity through the classical physics that govern physical consequence for our bodies, minds, planet, and atmosphere, including global warming, in this universe. Our species “Umwelt” may be idiosyncratic - but just like “a fish is a fish”* – classical physics govern physical consequence that our species “Umwelt” can clearly assign a prioritized relationship to, over the subjectivity of the multiverse; “CP > SM”.
Nevertheless, the concept of a digital multiverse provides one last parting metaphor to illustrate our species current dilemma with natural selection. What if the prevailing argument among the great digital programmers in the sky that program the digital simulation multiverse* is between positions that support programming universes through the initial conditions of physics that promote the natural selection of microbial life - because that is the process that produced the great programmers – and positions that support abandoning such programming protocols, because they no longer represent the greater macroscopic environment that the great programmers are now subject to.
Last Word
After exposure to eusocial species demonstrating tribalism/colonies, the most disturbing aspect of this correlation is that eusocial-tribal/colony species as physiologically disparate as ants and humans nevertheless demonstrate identical behavior through tribal (colony) warfare and the enslavement of others. Both the history of humans and the history of ants demonstrate this same behavior, both through outright slavery, and with humans, a wage-slave labor class. We really need to provide a parsimonious explanation for this remarkably identical behavior for “eusocial/tribal” organisms as physiologically disparate as ants and humans.
I really don’t understand how the correlation between “eusocial/tribal” species demonstrating the same behavior could not have already become obvious to scientific reductionism, and at least philosophical synthesis, before now. The explanation I identify to coordinate “eusocial/tribal” organisms as physiological disparate as ants and humans demonstrating identical behavior is through “deep reductionism” to the physics of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy.
As previously proposed, entropy identifies a short finite lifespan, where the conservation of energy benefits the enslaver by providing light physical duty, free-time, and repurposed time that enables the enslavers ability to develop increased specialization. Examples include ants developing “giant mandibles”, including humans developing highly specialized skills such as the specialization of conservative roles in tribalism that enable the church-state to turn money, poverty, and falsehood into violence.
In addition, we cannot overlook the relationship of slavery also enabling the ability to specialization of professionals and scientists. Science after all, has ubiquitously served every colorful manifestation of tribalism without reason, including conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture as instinctually as any other institution has. Science has allowed global warming to occur, and produced no objective sustainable social design. It seems clear that slavery, including through a wage-slave labor class, enables the ability of all elites to develop increased specialization, and that this exploitive situation is deeply embedded in a “eusocial/tribal” species biological determinism.
My hope is to eventually provide a mathematical equation demonstrating causality between the physics of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, and the sociobiology of “eusocial/tribal” species. Currently I’m calling this elusive equation the “slavery equation”, and I see it having application to outright slavery spanning ants to humans, specialization of the church-state, capitalism, professionals and scientists, and possibly the extended families of agriculture.
If we are to finally expose “the meanness of it”*, it’s quite possible that what we call “life” is the following: Biological existence subject to integration with an energy source, where natural selection subject to thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, designs, in application to eusocial/tribal species, the “natural sadism” of slavery/social stratification for the individual-level selection of the sacrificial multitude (warrior-worker class) to enable group-level selection through the increasing specialization of “elites”, spanning insolated protected ant queens to human chiefs and priests, and now scientists. We might well-qualify the meanness of natural selection as “natural sadism” applied to the cannon fodder warrior-worker class masses to enable the increasing specialization of “elites”, and this may be how mindless natural selection subject to indifferent thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, enables the progressive evolution of social organisms.
Such physics-biological determinism applied to human tribalism identifies the “natural sadism” of slavery through religio-socio-economic stratification for the individual-level selection of the sacrificial masses to enable group-level selection protectionism and increasing specialization for “elites” spanning chiefs, priests, and now scientists, where such specialization serves conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture. Consequently, even “progressive” democrats and scientists are identified to serve conservative interpretations of militarism, religion, politics, economics, and culture.
Spanning reductionism to natural selection and physics, I find compelling motivation to step outside the box’s that the indifferent universe and mindless natural selection designs for us, and move forward progressively with a Homo sapiens-sympathetic application of artificial selection and logic to enable vastly superior and more palatable social design.
Other reductionism to classical physics simply identifies biological unification or division with governing physics to produce corresponding positive or negative consequence. This useful reductionism demonstrates the profound physical consequence between biological allegiance to the Big Bang-made physics-governed natural hierarchy, or a manmade supernatural god-governed afterlife hierarchy. Specifically, designing our actions in unification with the physics-governed natural hierarchy is necessary to design predictive positive consequence from the indifferent universe, for example to overcome manmade yet physics-governed global warming.
Reductionism to the physics of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, including classical physics, identifies application to the sociobiology of eusocial/tribal species, which constitutes the need for a new science:physiosociobiology.
Post Word
An Important Update
A quick update on identifying the mathematics of the “slavery equation”. I believe Herman E. Daley, “Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essays Toward a Steady-State Economy” (1980) has effectively already identified the mathematics of the “slavery equation” with the mathematics used to demonstrate the Steady-State Economy, which is Low-Entropy Matter/Energy in, and High-Entropy Matter/Energy out. In other words, the mathematics of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, which are the mathematics of physical systems, applies to all physical systems, including biology. Biology must consume Low-Entropy Matter/Energy that by default produces High-Entropy Matter/Energy output as a result. This equation of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy is the equation/situation that biology must negotiate, and it is the equation/situation that causes slavery to be an effective survival strategy for social species, both insect and otherwise.
I have yet to fully integrate this understanding in the main text, but even this simple demonstration seems adequate to establish the theoretical and quantifiable validity of “the slavery equation”. The mathematics of thermodynamics, the conservation of energy, and entropy, which are the mathematics of all physical systems, including biology, are well-known and quantifiable. Low-Entropy Matter/Energy in, and High-Entropy Matter/Energy out, provides a compelling parsimonious explanation for why biological species as disparate as ants and hominids both demonstrate the same behavior of slavery (class systems), and why ant colonies and human tribalism are both growth-oriented through consumption of Low-Entropy Matter/Energy, which produces and encourages specialization through militarism and slavery.