I couldn't stop giggling as I started reading this essay - Reprogramming Predators (Blueprint for a cruelty free world) by David Pearce. Such thoughts were bound to cross every concerned mind and its one of the main reasons which sparked my interest in neuroscience, bio-tech et al. David Pearce has a grand vision and I love it. But fixing the humans who still have lingering evolutionary "impulses" just by watching a polarized idiot on idiot box screaming should probably one of the primary tasks.
Two primary questions which everyone think they know but most get it wrong are:
1. Who coined the term "survival of the fittest"?(Answer)
2. What does "fittest" stands for ? Is it most intelligent or strongest or something else?(Answer)
Always an utopian dream should permeable with caution and prudence:
"What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven." - F. Hoelderlin"
Caution doesn't mean we should refuse to move forward in morality as a civilization and if we don't , the civilization will take us back. There never was and never will be a constant idle civilization.
I was watching Joel Salatin (he was the farmer featured in the book, Omnivorous Dilemma) talk on TED Mid-Atlantic and these words by him says it all.
"A culture which views it animals and plants from 'that' type of manipulative, arrogant, disrespectful attitude will also soon its citizens the same way and other cultures the same way."
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