Fairy Tales 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Why Evolution Is a Lie and Other Traipsing Trails through the Plunderous Paths of Academia:

Observation 1: Fish eat stuff. This is irrelevant to the argument at hand but was on my mind so I felt the urge to say it.

Note 1: All existing social structures and personal psychological structures are inherently adaptive or else they would fail to remain in existence. Only adaptive systems and traits survive and prevail. The current system is the product of innumerable generations of experimentation, adaptation, and selection.

Conclusion 1: As the note specifies, all must be adaptive. Observation 1 is an adaptive trait.

Argument 1: It is beneficial for species to be able, in their interactions, to clearly communicate ideas, concepts, and beliefs as a natural structure in order to promote the transmittance of knowledge and support the collective conscience of the species. In order for such a structure to successfully incorporate itself into the evolutionary structure, it is required that the communicated ideas, concepts, and beliefs be of a candid, unreserved truthfulness. Thereby, it can be seen that in all societies wherein Observation 1 is apparent, there is a positive adaptation for open communication of truthful metarepresentations in order to promote the propagation and continuation of the genetic code associated with the trait assumed in Observation 1.

Observation 2: I must be the only one that believes that fish eat stuff. Since no one else has said it, I am the only one who holds this opinion.

Note 2: Outliers are bound to exist in any structure or system. This verifies the contention that although certain beings do exist, they are not necessarily the most well-adapted nor are they bound to house adaptive traits. It is an ever present reality that mutation of the genome can result in maladaptive, or conversely, robust traits exhibited in the given specimen.

Conclusion 2: The subject of Observation 2, as clearly demonstrated by the latter half of the observation, is an outlier. The inverse of observation two is an adaptive trait.

Argument 2: It is beneficial for species to only communicate that which is entirely necessary to their survival, propagation, and everyday interactions. It would be maladaptive for any given member of the species to incessantly recite irrelevant trivia as this would necessarily introduce an overwhelming amount of data into the everyday interactions of the species. This extraneous data would serve only to distract and otherwise debilitate the neural pathways of those in contact with the maladapted individual. It therefore becomes adaptive to socially exclude such members as would create Observation 2, thus removing their phenomes from the gene pool.

Point 1: Although the concept of evolution itself may be completely correct, the use of evolutionary reasoning is an irrational attempt at rationally justifying the superiority of the current age and its inhabitants.

Point 2: The method behind the argumentation is flawed directly by its means of argumentation. As is demonstrated above, the use of evolutionary reasoning forms the conclusion prior to its argumentation which in turn invalidates any justification given for the conclusion. Anything is justifiable post hoc.

It is all-too-easy for Academia to forget in its formulations that the theoretical explications that it generates in reference to any real or imagined artifacts of existence are nothing more than mental exercises and acrobatics—nothing more than a game of sudoku in its effectuality. This problem is the same problem that psychoanalysts have in their theories. It is the problem of almost any overarching structure applied to all meaning patterns—evolutionary reasoning included.

The End

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