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In response to an article in today's Daily
Telegraph, "Millions
want to quit the rat race"
Perhaps we should ask
ourselves WHY modern society became a "rat race" in the
first place. Could it be because it is rooted in and
dependent on our animal (i.e. rat-like) nature? And would
this be surprising, in view of human origins?
Evolution is not JUST
a theory: we really are "prime apes", in fact, Earth's
Greatest Ape, who is continuing his blind, dumb-animal
(Darwinian) struggle for survival and advantage (thus the
"rat race"), no longer in the natural environment for
which human nature and behaviour evolved, but in the
artificial "socio-economic environment", which has
effectively taken its place.
Our economy developed,
naturally enough, to serve and exploit our animal nature
and behaviour. The way to end the rat race, which is also
largely responsible for the Sustainability Problem (global
warming etc.), is for us to develop an alternative
socio-economic order, rooted in our more enlightened,
human nature. If not for ourselves, surely for our
children's sake.
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