To:    Daily Telegraph: Comment
Re:    An explanation and alternative for the "rat race"
Date:  Friday 11 May 07

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.

http://www.spaceship-earth.org

 
 
 



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