Bi-monthly meditation No. 3 from the Park. |
Experts have recently shown that new natures of
dogs can be bread in thirty to ninety generations. Can this tell us anything
about the breeding of human nature? You know your parents. Most of you have known
your grandparents. Some of you also your great grandparents. But then, not very
much more! Nobilities can count their forefathers to feudal times with perhaps
thirty generations. But how many are there? We could make children with the chimpanzees up
to some six million years ago. Then came the first prototypes of ourselves, of
the Homo sapiens. Before the pill the
average generation was less than 24 years. Six million years divided by 24 gives
us the figure of 250,000 generations. You and I are the results of some 250,000
successful sexual unions! Almost all of mankind’s
evolution has taken place in This knowledge tells us that out of the 250,000
sexual unions that resulted in you and me, some 247,500 took place in Africa,
2,500 took place since migration out of Let me give you three important facts about each of
these three periods. During our extremely long life in
During this period a few “bottlenecks” almost
annihilated human life. The early growth of human population was very
slow. 10,000 years ago, it is estimated, there were less than ten million
inhabitants on the globe. The average growth of mankind thus had been less than
one man and one woman per year. Can we imagine the intensity of sexual urge and
competition? These three facts support the idea that life
was so extremely precarious that only those who had a very strong and aggressive
will to survive, combined with a good capacity to adapt to new situations in
nature, that is “clever adrenalinomaniacs”, would survive. Are we not then permitted to conclude that,
most likely, aggressiveness and astuteness or intelligence have been important
elements of natural selection during the life of the first 247,500 sexual
encounters in the biological soup that is you? What about the nature in
which the next 2,000 copulations took place? The first migration out of
Africa 60,000 years ago went to Another wave of migrants went into From there one group went to
If it took 150,000 years for Homo sapiens to fill up Africa, it took
only around 30,000 for those in New dogs were bread in 30 to 90 generations.
Out of our African origin, Chinese, Indians and Europeans were bread by
“migratory selection” during some 2000 generations. Ample time! We should thus
not be surprised over what Carl von Linné called “racial” differences or, as the
politically correct now verbally try to hide, that “genetic distances” and
“cognitive differences” are continental facts of life. This migration consisted certainly of a harsh
struggle against other predators, poisonous snakes, and unknown bacteria. The
cold mountains between Caucasus and both Are we not, again, permitted to conclude that
the life of mankind, also during these 2,000 sexual unions, was so hard that
only serious fighters were likely to survive? Guessmates suggest that all
of our globe could not support more than ten million hunters and gatherers, who
require much land to live. That was the number we now were approaching, before
the latest 500 copulations. Which were then the rules? Kill every male enemy! Kill every male neutral! Fill every female victim! That is a summary of the “morale” of our last
period, with “cultural selection” among our 500 closest
forebears. Kill every male: “……as regards the towns of those people which
Yahweh your God gives you as your own inheritance, you shall let nothing that
breathes remain alive..” That is the command of Moses when his people,
who had been promised all land between the Nile and Euphrates, were to take
Kill every neutral: Greeks were not much different. In his famous
“History of the Peloponnesian War” Thucydides tells us that one island, Melos,
wanted to remain neutral in the war between Fill every woman: The best example of this urge to fill female
victims with your own seed is Genghis Khan. The most beautiful maidens conquered
were given to him. A serious study shows that one in 200 of our present world
population carry his genes, half a percent of mankind!!! If these have been the main
“moral” rules guiding the cultural
selection of our 500 closest generations of forefathers, should we be
surprised over what we now see? Should we be surprised that the father of
Zionism, Theodor Herzl, concluded that if his people, after eons of suffering,
wanted a state of their own, they had to rely on primitive power, because, as he
believed, “might makes right”? The same says today a non believing Jew,
one of the leading humanists in the Should we be surprised that some spit upon
the hope of European culture that “right makes migth”, for
instance the present American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, who
has said that it is “a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international
law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do
so.” Should we be surprised that the Russian old
secret police leader, Vladimir Putin, is forced to rely on pure might when his
nation, which never had any democracy, is threatened by a take-over from the
inside of strongly American-related oligarchs? Should we be surprised over the arrogant
policies of George W Bush? Isn’t he,
like Herzl, Bloom, No, we shouldn’t be surprised. But if we want
another 250,000 generations of great-great-great grandchildren to live, we
cannot continue like this. As a minimum we have deeply to learn, and hopefully
to teach others, to respect that “right makes might”. The belief that “might
makes right”, is bound, via a new Hobbesian chaos, not to lead to Armageddon –
which is a myth for fanatics - but to a final biological tragedy, the
Annihilation of our species. Gunnar Adler-Karlsson |