The great not so artifical intellengence who started life on the small sfere in the universe is going to fix it very soon.I suggest you take the rest off your life to study how it`s going to happen and i asure you you will not be disappointed nor have reason to be Chris, thank you for your thoughts. I know you see things from what I call the old bitter Mark Twain perspective. We seem to think that everything serves for our benefit. Ideally a communist global society in which power is distributed in some form of inverse greed law would be ideal. are you here to help or hinder However the cure seems to be shaping up as potentially worse than the disease. We’ve already concluded that sexual identity is hardwired, so why not gender identity. The less selfish the person, the more evolved the mind and soul. **** ’em! A microbe! Although most individuals will swing between varying levels of "selfishness" and "selflessness", the dominance of one will be based on external circumstances, examples of which might include matters of life and death, such as war and famine (the fight for food and physical survival), and political systems (such as the need to achieve status and a level of importance and "freedom" under capitalism).There are of course numerous examples where humans have sacrificed their own personal gain for another human, animal or "the greater good", even if it means their own death. So thank you for the recommendations, but I am done wasting valuable time I have left reading about this world’s biggest atrocity when nothing can be done about it. But it’s all due to humanity’s arrogance: no one likes to believe that the species they belong is full of bullshit. I’m betting on an enormous planetary inflorescence. Challenges commonly held views about human selfishness to argue that many of our most deeply entrenched social systems need to be restructured to reflect humanity's cooperative and altruistic tendencies, citing illustrative examples while ... We will never amount to anything meaningful as individuals or a “species”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha, and, ha. Are you suggesting mass suicide? In A Cooperative Species, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and ... I took this from a website quoting George Marshall, Executive Director Climate Outreach Information Network Oxford, UK. Animals aren’t Bambi. Some animals are kind to humans; some animals are NOT kind to humans. Some animals want to kill humans. It depends on the ani... Be it war to end all wars, or something else. Found insidehappened to be the first black man to be a world expert on education, “I have owned many kinds of caps and hats, but never one of ... Humans have long known that we are the cruellest, most selfish, most tyrannical species on the earth. Not everyone makes it through life’s trials with a loving, open heart. If you miss my point,then you are human, and I will have justice to humanity. Rising CO2 levels is just one of many indicators that we are self-destructing. The belief that human nature is essentially selfish is held by many — if not most — people. People who declare that technology will do something about the mess might be insensitive to the billion wretched people who are already barely surviving without enough potable water, and the 2-1/2 billion people living without sanitation – more people than existed on the planet when I was born. Stupid of course is a relative term. Human beings have abused their “higher intelligence” since the beginning they began thinking they were better. you got a 14 year old to read this. As long as individuals are doing the best they can the rest doesn’t really matter. We are the dominant species while every bodies got an opinion and every bodies got an asshole and we should keep them both to our self. Bobsky, have you read The World Without Us by Alan Weisman? 21, 2013. “Don’t read if you’re depressed…” This was actually exactly the type of op-ed I was searching for to soothe my seething anger and sadness. They were too self-absorbed, too selfish; part of the problem by turning a blind eye to the world. Well yes. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It gives me hope that our problems are solvable. That we have no control over our fate. what is your mantra or mission statement… You can’t win for losing. Crime? We perform unnecessary experiments on animals because it’s a money making racket. When someone is lying on the street, it is obvious isn’t it that our duty is to assist them? You are fortunate to have not faced this “dilemma” earlier in life. I think there are people out there who are good ambassadors for the human race and by that I mean they live sustainably and act as custodians of the animals and plants on this planet – but we need more of these people. I’m not just saying this because I was bullied in school as a kid, but also from babysitting other people’s children too. We need to fix capitalism so it’s not tied to continual population growth. To keep caring and keep choosing kindness, even when it breaks me open. If we don’t unite within a humane UNBIASED SANDBOX FOR ALL OF OUR BIASED MIND SETS THROUGHOUT ALL SITUATIONS IN LIFE. This evolutionary trait is manifested in the ‘fight or flight’ response which has served us well through the early stages of our development and comes to our rescue even to day when stepping off the curb at the wrong moment etc…That said our brain’s have become much more dense complex and sophisticated processors that have manufactured responses, that our reflective awareness interprets as belief systems,…such as religion which becomes an elaborate mental state in which to sift the endless stream of causality in the real world, including the knowledge of our own mortality. I concur with you on your essay – it’s difficult for me to interact with humans nowadays because of their selfish ways etc. From the plants they eat and drop. Claim: Humans are naturally social creatures. Regret, curiosity, wanderlust. There are lots of people in the Western world refusing to have children now and in the future. I didn’t seem Roman Thomas either, but I wonder if the writer was thinking of you. My misanthropic nature is in high alert this time of year, anyway. Now your waring species will soon turn on itself because it has no real external threat. Especially the ones on the Road that like to speed and tailgate all the time which they really Do have very Severe Mental Issues unfortunately. People who DO have kids are the most selfish people in the world, and procreation is the single most selfish act any human being can do. We’re at a stalemate. In general people are a product of the surroundings that they are subjected too. The strong will exploit the weak. To many stuffing their mouths full of MacDonalds and waisting the 70 points of IQ they received with dumb television and following celebrities. Things are getting better. One must be both, really to survive and thrive. We’ve been just too successful with our reproductive strategy. A downward spiral. And the choice to learn the real truth??? This is the underlying assumption for the evolution of life on our particular planet including ourselves. I’m sorry but I find anti-humanist thinking like yours to be idiotic and counterproductive. Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Woman want to show men how much better they are by playing footy and cricket. well believe it or not it can. Other alternatives to capitalism haven’t fared so well. Drug-resistant diseases are on the rise, and the global spread of dangerous diseases because of transportation and warming climates indicate the revenge of mother nature is near. The tragic thing about our situation is we are smart enough to solve our problems — we just can’t agree to work together. I found it somewhat comforting to read some of the comments by other people who care and are thinking about the same things. Your minds only understand what it wants and how to compete for resources, which you do somewhat admit in your article. Human beings are the most selfish animals on Earth. His thorough and impeccable research is required reading for anyone interested in the historical record and the evidence presented.What is telling on the cover of “Collapse” is the use of the word choose. Maybe if who we are is much bigger than our physical/material existence then in the bigger scheme of things its not that important. But you can survival in man different ways, giving and helping others is another way of happiness. Also, a serious resolve to see brightness even when the gloom is pervasive. That’s cool. Reduce the population and create nuclear winter to cool the planet. The hard part is trying to get people to focus on empathy, love, and understanding for each other. It should be TEXTS. You have a kind heart and I appreciate it. We could get back to 350ppm CO2 if we recreated industrial society to be hyper-efficient – and that could happen, but our past momentum is against us. To me it is 100%, not 99.9%, obvious that nothing will or can be done about the destruction of this planet before civilizations experience disasters, leaving only pockets still in existence, looking much different from today. It’s like speaking an alien language. No comments here during this time of coronavirus? This brain state would represent a lack of hope. I’m looking forward to that list. But this one will wipe out life as we have known it. Not all the animals. SuperCooperators is an overview of Nowak’s ambitious, groundbreaking research challenging a traditional take on the story of evolution—namely, that it’s one of relentless competition in a dog-eat-dog world. The Selfish Gene explains some living organism have more genes then what they need to operate. I’ve read all of Jared Diamond’s work. Finally the bigger picture view allows us to be amused and not take life too seriously. It is also acute and the most volatile in terms of being unable to predict it or stop it if it begins. Relax, the future will take care of itself. I have a scientific education and I think James was simply stating an opinion, which I largely agree with, and feels bad about the destruction of the planet, for aesthetic, if no other reasons. Another thing i feel we fail as a society in all cultures perhaps is the proper way to access history or the right questions for the problems. We may be actually living in humanity’s end times. There is something called "democracy" and "voters". And it’s so sad because most people are good, and many people are smart, and we should be much better than our collective self. Normal has worked out so far. The true nature of humans is self-interested. I’ve done many workshops and there are people out there who are waking up, but it’s a slow process. We hunted wooly mammoths, ground sloths and moas to extinction. Maybe the world is always the same, always at the brink of self-destruction, but always muddling through. . We reason with fairness due to democracy or capitalism in our political beliefs as well as find justification in our religious or spiritual beliefs. Since my wife died two years and four months ago, I have under a circumstance I won’t bother explaining experienced the company of a coterie of people significantly smarter than average people. While atheist scientists or just atheists preach like antiJesus about something that no one can be truly certain about just like school yard bullies. Where do we start when sociopaths and psychopaths plays a vicious game within consumer affairs of domination within their (it’s not ours) economic policies created in an unethical playing field that instigates disastrous corporatism upon us all adding another link into the chain of humanities evolutionary flawed progression upon the tree of monkeys and the tower of Babel where any honest Joe that tries to play catch up, or just to keep the wolves from the door work themselves into an early grave or are imprisoned for being a part of an uprising against corporatism ? An evolutionary biologist argues against the belief that sexual behavior is governed by genes, identifying an intricate interplay among humans that involves day-to-day survival, reproduction, and learned cultural factors. A wake up call for the elites if you will, that more needs to be done to engage the have not’s within society. This is not uncommon and helps. Other times I think I should write version 2.0 with even more evidence. The ONE reason James left out of his list (in my opinion) is Free Will. It’s not about the human species, it’s about them and theirs. I think that’s part of his point, though – we have proven unable to overcome a lot of our faults. What humans are doing is not a problem because there is nothing or no-one who is looking down on the protoplasm to declare it so. While it is true that the human species is in fact lacking in many areas that are critical to our survival, it is also true that the world is becoming a generally safer/smarter place. And in a few years from now that number is going to increase substantially. That is a distinct possibility, but it is a good thing. He went all over the world investigating population growth, and the few places he found that were doing something have been undermined by other factors. Economy is important. I’m sure models could be developed, but where there is lacking appreciation, the will trails off. It still gets 50-100 hits a day. As soon as human beings said, “I’m moving out of the jungle”, into a “Concrete Jungle” and started manufacturing things to benefit human beings only, was when they went over the line to no return. It doesn’t represent the world at all, they only seek to trigger human emotion with sensationalism and give a negative perspective of the world. The above does not mean we need to accept the status quo within our own society,…just that all social actors will continue to pursue their own best interests in an effort to improve their lot. However, I’m not sure who your comments are addressed to. Are they to me, or one of the other people leaving a comment. Now I am wealthy and enjoy pretty much the same luxuries I would have after a Powerball win. Men are controlling toward women and even misogynistic because of separation trauma caused by their mother moving away a little from their infancy. Very well replied, James. They are very greedy, and have been known to swoop on humans. Those are all things that other creatures show no signs of feeling. Somewhere in Mozambique there is a terrible storm, so how can you possibly enjoy the Tulips popping up on your law? Thanks for your gracious acceptance, James. It comes down to the program that any one person receives! So, if a person isn’t a scientist who understands evidence-based analysis, s/he won’t see a problem with water running out, or what have you, until it runs out. Phone zombies, anti-vaxxers, texting-while-driving/walking, etc. Moral relativism in its light. It’s hard, but if we do search, there are signs for hope. Whether we differentiate survival from "personal gain" is another topic in my view - particularly as some may argue only basic physiological requirements need to be met for the physical body to survive, whilst other needs have to be met for survival of humans in terms of both physical AND mental wellbeing.But back to the original question in hand: I do not believe that humans are inherently selfish or selfless - what I will say is that I believe the choice to act in one's own interests vs. When these discarded masks are introduced in the local environment by humans, animals are its victims. We’re coming across an environmental issue right now. All of these kinds of oppression are caused by the average intelligence of mankind not being smart enough to be understanding, educated and civil. I am sorry about your dear wife and the loss of companionship, financial support and your obvious sadness. You call inequality a problem because you see someone who has more than you. I need to keep remembering that. Well, most people are selfish, but as soon as one is improved as a human being s/he becomes less selfish, or even is’s selfish anymore. Wish you were my neighbor because then I would help take care of you! I’ve recently been reading Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker who effectively contradicts everything I say here, and makes a great case with logic, statistics, and evidence. I’m amused that you think because I’m a feminist and worry about climate change that implies I’m a Marxist. I would have no trouble finding three new articles a day and in a year have a thousand. ohh buy the way this is an excellent article,,,im glad to know others think as i ,,most people barely have enough thought to open there eyes in the morning,,like george carlin has said people are f ‘n stupid,,. It could be a smaller portion of the total population that remains after a catastrophic miss-calculation that precipitates a nuclear winter, or the forces unleashed from a sizeable extraterrestrial impact. Of course Humans are unique in that we have a level of self awareness far more sophisticated than any other. THESE are tha actos driving the bus over the cliff. We could be, but we have to make a stand against them and come together and find a way to wake them up. Through the fruits of evolution we recoil upon seeing a snake in our path, because at one time if a man weren’t bothered he might be bitten and die before he could reproduce his blasé DNA. In particular, he has set out to combat the idea that evolution selects exclusively for individualistically selfish behaviour in animals. You being by saying this article is depressing. Once we accept our position in society, against our own self interests, is when events become less predictable and social order (peace) is lost. I didn’t have any children because I was convinced at an early age that polite civilization (as we in the best part of the developed world have had it for the last few years) will be overrun by the thirsty and hungry, due to overpopulation sucking the water tables irreplaceably dry. What would be the point if the human species itself does not survive? You bring up good points, Mike. My goal in all of this, though, is Diogenesian: I walk around with my little lantern looking for an honest man; i.e., anyone who acknowledges that civilization as we want it is cooked. So don’t worry…just know that everything is happening the way it is meant to happen. Safety in numbers. The progress of physics (beyond the standard model and in cosmology) have maybe slowed down a bit, but our knowledge of biology and adaptive systems grows very fast. But alas the sordid reality of our existence is that we are, all of us, a little bit of everything. And thank God for fine wine. We will perish, or civilisation will perish, like many others before. You wrote this two years ago and since then things have gotten so much worse. But what about the subject? Things I want to remember – James Wallace Harris, By James Wallace Harris, Tuesday, November 25, 2014. We were not ‘put here.’ We evolved here. Past civilizations have a perfect score of failure. James, this is a personal question. It has to be taught logic, reasoning, and how to control it’s emotions. The costs and benefits are measured in terms of reproductive fitness, or expected number of offspring. I guess it depends on how you think of it. This Mexican stand off has been going for some time now, it isn’t Russian roulette until a nation or group that refuses to be part of the united nations become another player with-in this game of insanity. Astounding huge step in our outer reality is a great part of a never. 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