Terry A. Davis
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- Aug 28, 2023
- 67
To know a bit about me, I used to be quite a religious person - obsessively so, hence my name. I was never as mentally ill as terry but yeah I was borderline crazy.
Over the last year I have come to the realisation that if God does exist then he isn't a very nice person. God is nature in my opinion. All of life is God.
When you look beyond the beauty of a forest or jungle you begin to see the horrifying reality that we live in a death furnace and human beings created their own zoo (civilisation) because the natural world is so harsh and frightening. We willingly enslaved ourselves because true freedom is a hellish nightmare. People (including me sometimes) romanticise nature and living in nature and getting away from civilisation. But people fail to understand a few things:
- You are a domesticated animal, not a wild animal. Human features are now reflecting this. Our faces are getting smaller and more neotenous, our brains are getting smaller, our bones are getting thinner, we are becoming less adaptive. There is no difference between the domestication of the wolf into a dog and the domestication of wild man into slave man. Humans are animals, there is no exception. We can breed humans like we do with animals. We could breed humans to be strong and beautiful and intelligent but people start to sweat at this idea because of history.
- You might be thinking "well doesnt that disprove natural selection?". In a way it does, if you take the view that evolution is 'survival of the fittest'. This is only the case in a natural environment and even so, fitness is only a reflection of adaptability and how easy it is for an organism to survive in a given environment compared to something else. If food is scarce, then a large strong mighty body is detrimental because you need to eat more calories to survive. A small body that is shifty and quiet is more adaptable in that environment.
-Fitness is therefore determined by the environment that an organism has to survive in. We haven't stopped evolution contrary to what some people think. Populations are still selecting traits and the traits that I think are being selected for are beneficial for civilisation. Human beings are community orientated but civilisation means we live in a world of strangers, not family. Self importance, greed, Machiavellianism, egotism, deceptiveness and other traits are negatively associated with success in a small community environment but are positively associated in a large community environment. This is because in a tribalist situation, being kicked out by the band meant certain death. Now you can just move and create a new persona for yourself. This has been happening for thousands of years and you're silly if you think these genes haven't been selected for. The idea of the 'badboy' is a collection of these traits alongside handsomeness for example.
Essentially, the feeling you may have that the world is progressively getting more and more nasty and selfish and full of betrayal might not be in your imagination. With the advent of modern medicine, genetic packages that would have been selected out of the genepool were allowed to survive and reproduce themselves. Once again, this will have ramifications that will ripple throughout time.
It's a big topic and I don't want to bore people with a wall of text, if you have any questions I will try to answer them if I can.
Over the last year I have come to the realisation that if God does exist then he isn't a very nice person. God is nature in my opinion. All of life is God.
When you look beyond the beauty of a forest or jungle you begin to see the horrifying reality that we live in a death furnace and human beings created their own zoo (civilisation) because the natural world is so harsh and frightening. We willingly enslaved ourselves because true freedom is a hellish nightmare. People (including me sometimes) romanticise nature and living in nature and getting away from civilisation. But people fail to understand a few things:
- You are a domesticated animal, not a wild animal. Human features are now reflecting this. Our faces are getting smaller and more neotenous, our brains are getting smaller, our bones are getting thinner, we are becoming less adaptive. There is no difference between the domestication of the wolf into a dog and the domestication of wild man into slave man. Humans are animals, there is no exception. We can breed humans like we do with animals. We could breed humans to be strong and beautiful and intelligent but people start to sweat at this idea because of history.
- You might be thinking "well doesnt that disprove natural selection?". In a way it does, if you take the view that evolution is 'survival of the fittest'. This is only the case in a natural environment and even so, fitness is only a reflection of adaptability and how easy it is for an organism to survive in a given environment compared to something else. If food is scarce, then a large strong mighty body is detrimental because you need to eat more calories to survive. A small body that is shifty and quiet is more adaptable in that environment.
-Fitness is therefore determined by the environment that an organism has to survive in. We haven't stopped evolution contrary to what some people think. Populations are still selecting traits and the traits that I think are being selected for are beneficial for civilisation. Human beings are community orientated but civilisation means we live in a world of strangers, not family. Self importance, greed, Machiavellianism, egotism, deceptiveness and other traits are negatively associated with success in a small community environment but are positively associated in a large community environment. This is because in a tribalist situation, being kicked out by the band meant certain death. Now you can just move and create a new persona for yourself. This has been happening for thousands of years and you're silly if you think these genes haven't been selected for. The idea of the 'badboy' is a collection of these traits alongside handsomeness for example.
Essentially, the feeling you may have that the world is progressively getting more and more nasty and selfish and full of betrayal might not be in your imagination. With the advent of modern medicine, genetic packages that would have been selected out of the genepool were allowed to survive and reproduce themselves. Once again, this will have ramifications that will ripple throughout time.
It's a big topic and I don't want to bore people with a wall of text, if you have any questions I will try to answer them if I can.
