What Is It About Us Modern Humans That Makes Us So Lethal?
What if we had a sound and reliable handle on reality, the what is?
The hyperprosociality of modern humans, who began their ‘Great Human Expansion’ (likely on the southern tip of Southern Africa) was perhaps legendary to the citizens of the pre-expansionist Khoisan Civilization who, beginning in the second millennium BCE, were mostly exterminated by the back to Africa modern humans (resistance proved futile) as it was to the surviving remnant population of Khoisans who were exterminated/assimilated/acculturated (late 19th to 20th century CE) by the early 21st century when only some of their genes were not part of the modern human admixture — most of their K-culture normative information having been lost to metastatic moderns.
What part of the past lives of humans do we willfully ignorant modern humans not get? I could go on for another five paragraphs averaging five links per paragraph (or at book length), but would doing so have a different outcome? The answer to the title question is that our modern form of human (and civilization) is lethal to posterity (e.g. today’s 10 year olds who will pay our overshoot debt) and most wild species (especially eukaryotes) who, despite a massive reduction in biomass, are not extinct yet secondary to the Anthropocene mass extinction event that is just getting started, driven by agriculture and economic growth and development, i.e modern per capita (8.3+ billion and counting) consumption/affluence/technology (e.g. cars, data centers, agricultural pumping, fertilizer production, mining, industrial fishing — 97% is by wealthy nations who don’t have enough, … as needed to feed hungry human babies).
And as for the subtitle question (What if we had a sound and reliable handle on reality, aka the what is?), the painfully obvious answer is that we (modern humans) lack even the slightest ability to understand ourselves because (our salary/social approbation depends upon our not understanding and) if any one of us does, we will mutate into a new form of human who must choicelessly change — walk away from modernity, i.e. reversion mutate back into mere denormalized animals having but a slight chance of renormalizing as a viable form of homininan. Anyone who believes in ‘reversion mutation’ or ‘walking away’, selects out of having the potential to do so. The condition of linguistic thinking dominance must end first.
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As modern humans, we would rather die than live like (evolvable) animals again. That as many as 150 modern humans could reversion mutate (forced to secondary to having a sound and reliable handle, via insight and understanding, on why their modern form of human is 100% lethal long term) is currently, per all evidence, a pollyannaish conjecture of zero interest to rogue primates or to erudite zero-order humanists.
If we moderns have a recent psychopathy issue (last 10k years), then changing socioeconomic-political institutions can be viewed as the solution — a new social contract and all of us decent people can live the good life when liberated from indecent institutions [Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System].
But if we have a ‘form of human/civilization’ problem that goes back to a rapid within Africa expansion c. 75k-60k years ago followed by an even more rapid expansion out of Africa by an expansionist form of human that became all non-Khoisan/Pygmy Africans and all non-African humans of today (with some admixture, e.g. Neanderthal, , Denisovan, Khoisan, et al.), then psychopathy has far deeper roots than modern humans can think (implied is that they cannot be ‘fixed’, but can only end for the same reason that metastatic cancer cells can’t be fixed even if an oncologist could force 99% to go back to being normal cells as the 1% with resistance to being renormalized would just restart the pathological BAU [business-as-usual] metastasis after a brief apparent remission). An oncologist cell who wanted to save the denormalized cells would have to be one (and be seriously misguided/mistaken).
Non-viable forms of human are selected out of the biosystem.
Eric Lee, cringeworthy idiot, aka H.narrator
The Tao Te Ching series has been scheduled to post on Tuesday’s and so will continue to post.
The shorter of it is the last sentence of my recent one paragraph post on colonialism: BAU. No news here, folks.
PS: Current events are a distraction. Tune out, turn off, drop out (no call to action implied — understand and you won’t be able not to — if you keep on fiddling, you don’t understand). If you can hear the sound trees make when no wind blows, you cannot not hear them (prior to death).
