04-02-2023, 06:46 PM
As someone who identifies as a human being -- and prefers to keep company with those who similarly identify -- I was referring to the survival of humanity, which is one of those words that few people give much thought to. In a healthy society, that would be a universally inclusive identity -- in the truest sense of inclusivity -- but alas, those who have championed the cause of "inclusivity" are exclusively concerned with particularity. As Rousseau expounded, it's the art of getting others to serve your interests, while thinking they're serving their own. That's the beauty of corruption: those who know not who they really are, are incapable of discerning those who are not what they appear to be. Which begs the question; who are the blind?
To see, yet remain inobservant, is corruption, because we have the capacity to do so and are manifestly rewarded in return. The only reason people fear what might be is because they're disempowered. They feel "safe" in inobservancy, and as a consequence are exploited by those who prey upon psychological weakness. Is that survival of the fittest? Only if we equate fitness with depraved indifference. It's acceptable if we're speaking of parasites, but I like to think that human beings are a few rungs up on the evolutionary ladder.
To see, yet remain inobservant, is corruption, because we have the capacity to do so and are manifestly rewarded in return. The only reason people fear what might be is because they're disempowered. They feel "safe" in inobservancy, and as a consequence are exploited by those who prey upon psychological weakness. Is that survival of the fittest? Only if we equate fitness with depraved indifference. It's acceptable if we're speaking of parasites, but I like to think that human beings are a few rungs up on the evolutionary ladder.