Humanity and Anthropogenisis

I am of the belief that humanity is one that is not susceptible to change. I believe suffer from irreparable stubbornness in our constructs.

The belief that Anthropogenises has made us better beings compared to the apes of which we once were is an issue to which one may be sceptical about. That underlying fact that we have developed frontal lobes – crucial to our ability to choose between good and bad – relative to that of the Pleistocene of which we are supposedly to have evolved from. This attribute is apparently what differs us from the apes, the fact that our frontal lobes have given us the ability to decide the social norms and repress our carnal inhibitions.

Load of bollocks if you ask me. Admittedly the fact that our frontal lobe development has changed the way we conduct ourselves in society – not to mention that it has given us the ability to form a society – but have never changed nor moved anywhere near to being better individuals. What evolution has given us is not a moral stand, what it has done for us is give us the ability to indulge with our inhibitions in a more sophisticated yet savage manner.

Our ability to think has made us sophisticated apes. The concept of sins was introduced and imposed towards society in an attempt to subvert our carnal desires. We are threatened with damnation if we succumb to our darkest needs and desires. Yet even then, we indulge with the sweet evils of life though we no longer make it apparent and advertise the fact to society. We have always found a better way to steal from another, we have always found a more savage way to rape another, we have always somehow manages to come up with an alternative to effectively take the life of another. Evolution has changed us and made us into better beings, we are no better then what we once were. Every morning as we wake up, as we do the things that we do, we always find a way to better ourselves, we find a way to do better than the person next to us, we try to shape ourselves to being the alpha-male in the society we live in regardless of our gender.

Survival of the fittest, co-existence has never been a part of our construct. We accept the people around us simply because we have to, not because we want to, we force ourselves to adhere to social norms and we know we would gladly walk the other way.

Humanity has no morality, what we have is a sense of conformity, we do not conduct ourselves as things were right or wrong, we weigh the risk and proceed on a balance of probabilities. So long as society remains ignorant of our sins, we indulge in them. We are no better than the animals, we are merely more sophisticated.

But then again, due to the fact that we have drawn lines to guide our social conduct and the fact that more than half the time we want nothing more than to walk across that line is the crux to which I’d actually have a fair prospect at getting a decent job. Score one for humanity.

There is little need to look for a supernatural source of evil, for humanity is more than capable of its own evils

- Joseph Conrad -