this article makes a lot of sense.. its high time to lose the shackles of our evolutionary past and move on to a noosphere (a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary development dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal relationships) of collective experience. cyber platforms like facebook and group emailing etc.. are facilitating just that... even though these are still heavily polarised and divisive, at least you get to see all perspectives in any given conflict. and that can only be a good thing.. because it wasnt always like this: In our early past, (sic) our still-biological past, 15,000 years ago we were hunter gatherers. We showed group cohesiveness and discrimination against other groups. It was adaptive. It was quite understandable that we evolved traits of group recognition, and making sure we recognized foreigners. This is my conviction that this is probably the early basis for our unfortunate xenophobic behavior that is still in us. Its a behavior that is now terribly maladaptive. eo wilson (biologist extraordinaire) studied ants and the hive mentality that helps these animals survive - we may not be ants but we may just be able to learn a thing or two about how they operate and survive in a world much, much harsher than the current human one that we inhabit..
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 02:13:53 +0000
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