EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY: THE SPECTRUM OF PREDATORS (important idea) Every culture

EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY: THE SPECTRUM OF PREDATORS

(important idea)

Every culture has in its past engaged in parasitism, and the evolution of civilization requires a constant process of INTERNALLY suppressing parasitism. Sometimes after realizing one’s failures (the British). Yet some cultures do not specialize in productivity – they specialize in parasitism. This parasitism evolves into the group’s evolutionary strategy.

CLASS…………IMMORAL…………..MORAL

1) Martial:……..Islamic (violence)..[law, contract, property]

2) Labor:……….Gypsy (theft)……..[production and productive exchange]

3) Economic:…Judaic (fraud)…….[voluntary organization of production]

4) Priestly:…….Marxist/Neo-Puritan

………………………………..( pseudoscience, fraud, theft, violence)

……………………………………………….[voluntary production of commons]

(i) Note that politicians, academics, public intellectuals, and teachers are members of the priestly cast: “those who gossip”)

(ii) Note that these are all un-landed peoples who evolved on the steppe and desert whose strategy is explicitly poly moral, poly logical, and separatist.

One can either suppress parasitism or increase parasitism.

Whether a culture is objectively moral or not is dependent only upon this one test.