The Irony of Evolution

“The anxious sense of self is forged by two opposed and irreconcilable forces. The blind drives of biology and the moral constraints of society.”

                                                                                    Freud

 

The evolution of our brains may have been selected for tribal violence, rape, selfishness, gluttony, and other unethical behaviors such as strategies to propagate one’s genes without accountability…but in modernity, our collective well-being clearly depends on our opposing such natural tendencies that nature has selected for.

In the end, it is our responsibility to transcend these hard-wired evolutionary drives that once were necessary for survival in a much different world…

It is only through awareness, logic, and reason that we may be able to overcome the irony of our evolutionary condition and possibly save ourselves… from ourselves.

 

“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man ... far too little. His psyche should be studied — because we are the origin of all coming evil.”

                                                                                                                     —C.G. Jung