The Consequences of Neoteny, Secularism, and Religiosity –“Neoteny is a secular

The Consequences of Neoteny, Secularism, and Religiosity

–“Neoteny is a secular trend…”–

I would like to provide comfort in claiming that’s partly true – but it isn’t. Neoteny is a genetic trend, and it is the single most influential if not the only meaningfully influential trend in human evolution. The issue for mankind, appears to be that the complexity of your society in organizing cooperatively at scale puts increasing stress on those more driven by impulsivity, and favors those driven by agency – and intelligence that results from neoteny and size.

Secularism is merely the result of the shift of the majority of the population out of subsistence into independence, that replaces the artificial security of faith and community, with the practical security of rule of law and economic security. Hence the reduction of devotion to those who are indoctrinated, or those with both high empathizing and neuroticism (feminine intuition) – or those who seek that external authority stability and certainty because they feel the cannot compete in the meritocratic and adversarial system of the rule of law and economy.

I am not a member of the priesthood, so not in the business of motherly comforting – but effectively in the paternal and responsible monarchy and judciary. So I have to deal with what is true for all not what is preferable for some. And in many ways this function is hardest on the least fit, who, without some external support, struggle with the fact that they are found wanting by others and themselves in too many walks of life. And seek mindfulness to live life tolerably, if not comfortably.

Reply addressees: @antigg860413