Who is the winner?
What about evolution?
Darwin figured that humans must have evolved from a bunch of apes, the apes from monkeys, and I’m not sure what else he had in mind to track the lineage further back. That process has become popularized as “natural selection.” The American philosopher, Herbert Spencer, even applied the theory of natural selection to humans, which became commonly known as the “survival of the fittest.”
Psychologists use rats to emulate human behavior (I guess, roaches would be harder to observe). Apes are a lot more civilized than humans most of the time; although chimp males occasionally kill youngsters, if they tick them off, bonobos peacefully line up to the female with the sole intention of benefiting of the race, and male gorillas go only as far as a bluff charge, during which they place their foreheads against each other and wait until one of them has something better to do. Orangutans are peaceful and placid even on photos, but they are a dying breed, going down the way of the Arawak after the Caribs invaded, except the Caribs are now played by “civilized” humans.
So, where do humans come from?
The incessant story of degeneration
When I was trading stamps and coins at grade school, in the fifth grade, one of my classmates’ granddad was a WW1 veteran. His grandson traded his WW1 binoculars for a few trinkets with me, which was not the smartest thing to do, but you cannot fix stupid or, in that case, greed, either. The best memory of the transaction came from my being able to listen to grandpa’s stories. By then, I was familiar with my mother’s stories from WW2 in Europe, so my conclusion was easy and fast: The great-grandfather generation was ten times tougher than the grandfathers, and the grandfathers were ten times tougher than the parents. I was ten times weaker than my parents, my offspring’s generation was ten times weaker than me, and the grandchildren’s generation goes even lower.
All these details proved beyond doubt, at least to me, that it’s not the fittest who survive, but the most protected. Chances are, most of them do not even have job, but are either rich heirs to family fortune or they stay lawfully out of work by collecting all kinds of support from all over the place and spend the rest of their time on the TV, on their phones, eating, and copulating, which further multiplies their ranks. The same applies to the ultra-rich, but they tend to inbreed, which diligently defiles their progeny in the same manner as I have noticed among commoners.
What do the protected groups have in common?
The rich want to be richer, because they know that their power lies in their connections and in their assets; the alternative would be to become vulnerable by losing assets, but becoming vulnerable is not an option; they are AFRAID of penury and, for that matter, of becoming law-abiding citizens who are exposed to all kinds of laws that contradict each other to the point that any of the common folks could be tried, sentenced, and incarcerated anytime, should authorities choose to pursue the course.
The freeloading poor are easy to decipher: they simply want to be taken care of. They vote for handouts that they usually do not receive, but what the heck. Their crowds are still more than enough to populate the Earth. What are they afraid of? They don’t want to become responsible for their own lives, and they offer their submission or even subservience to the powers that allow them to receive some of the fruits of the stuff that responsible people bring into existence. They will kneel forever, because they are afraid to stand up and lose their “benefits,” especially if the benefits amount to a federal or a state pension from their already overpaid jobs.
Who are humanity’s common ancestors, based on the common denominator?
Lo and behold:
That’s it! You guessed just right: chicken!
Accurate. Those who survive reproduce. War tends to eliminate the best and preserve the worst. Modern war is very democratic in butchering everyone so no one reproduces.
Darwin by the way was not original. Before Darwin popularized the idea others had it as well.
His grandfather Erasmus Darwin being one.
https://www.famousscientists.org/evolution-theories-before-darwin/
it’s not the fittest who survive, but the most protected...
so true! Just great! Thx.