Off Topic / Re: Percentage of babies born with disorders rising heavily in last 2 years
« on: December 05, 2017, 07:20:45 am »The trouble is that, ever since the Neolithic era, Mankind has been deliberately selecting for the unfit on a massive scale, so there is nothing natural about this form of selection.Humans are part of nature.
Take money, for example. Money is a figment of the imagination based on pieces of paper, with no real intrinsic value. Yet, human beings perceive those with money as having more value than others, for the purposes of mating etc.Granted, not all humans per se actively mate for money, BUT they indirectly do so, in that the very possession of money allows the rich to gain access to superior technology that increases the survival of their children etc.Other animals also imagine things. They image that there are hierarchies and that they have a place in them, for example.
One only has to look at the major geniuses of the past 5000 years. Almost all of them had no children.....That means, human society definitely discriminates against intelligence....It discriminates against a type of intelligence, I agree. But as far as nature is concerned, the point of being intelligent is to procreate. If you're not procreating, then your intelligence is biologically useless or even unfit.
Anyway, the point is that a single individual has no chance against such major social forces. You need some social organisation to help you, unfortunately, when in a non-free society.I don't see it that way. A sufficiently intelligent person should be able to asses the situation, adapt, and thrive.
You have in mind certain scientists that have made great contributions to society with their inventiveness and discoveries. But to invent/discover something, you don't need to be intelligent - you simply need to be different than others. You simply need to take a path that others have not taken, even if you have a limp. That's why people say that geniuses have a craziness to them. They just don't realize it's a trivial statement.