wellwisher
Well-Known Member
It's rare to see someone arguing for social darwinim today. I guess it takes someone with a fantasist view of violence and strength and frankly a fetishist for misery. I also love the"tools and proesthetic are unnatural" idiocy. You have an animal with a large brain capable of insight and abstract thinking, but also limbs capable of fine motricity (and for which that animal has been naturally selected), but let's consider all the things those very natural capacity can make out of resources found in nature, let's completely ignore the social structure and organisation they can produce and support and call half of nature unnatural just to maintain a completely false and wrongheaded view.
You missed the point. Say you have two children. One has a mother or matter, providing and doing everything for him. The other child has to do most things on their own. As long as the first child's mother can follow him through life, he can stay in a self confidence and perpetual pampering. But he has no real skills since his maternal prosthesis does it for him. In the second case, that child is more self sufficient for the rest of his life. He has selective advantage in the bigger picture of things. He is not a greenhouse orchid whose beauty is conditional on others, which may not last.
This orchid state of materialism is not stable in the long term, if everyone wants this. If all you needed to be happy, and out going, was money and a servant, and everyone wanted this, it implodes, since there will be no servants, since they also want this. We will need to bully half the people, so they can provide this for the other half.This is another pitfall.
I am not saying materialism is not beneficial in terms of improving the standard of living. This frees up time and energy, so one can practice being more self sufficient; hobbies.
Most crime is about the fastest way to obtain money and/or material things, so one can use this as the prosthesis, for subjective cultural success. The proof of this is the singer,who has top hits and lots of money. Suddenly, the materialist formula make him or her an expert is the topics of the day. That is an illusion. He may not have the inner worth in proportion to the outer image and inflated ego.
There are two ways to develop the brain and the intellect. We can input data from the outside through our sensory systems. This is how science and materialism works. We can use this external technique to build our ego by having others compliment us with audio output and feedback.
The other way is from the inside out. The creative person gets inspiration from within. The New Testament mentions the inner man growing and the inner man dying. This was Jesus's idea. All the material goodies of culture, that once did not exist; cell phone, came from the inside of someone. Once it is outside the materialist can enjoy it. Or they can become ruled by it, if their self esteem and intellect becomes too dependent on it.
Last edited: