Survival of the Fittest; Dispelling the Myth

 

We all have heard this term batted around like it was something to behold and a true compass by which to live and thrive. Some have even used it as an excuse to justify their dominance and their oppression of others, but let’s be real and ask ourselves this question.

Could those who claim to have mastered this “natural selection” thing should be always seen as the ruling class and thereby granted all of the privileges that comes with the title?

I ask you to consider this question because if your agree with it, then my only argument is, would the current class of privileged individuals retain that title if they had to endure the true trails of those that they wish to reign supreme over and/or suppress. Consider the following.

 Survival of the fittest is “also known as “natural selection,” a simple statement of the fact that in dangerous circumstances, only those individuals most adapted to their environment survive—and the world, with its limited food supply, fearsome predators, and devastating diseases is always a dangerous place.” (The Law of Evolution: Darwin, Wallace, and the Survival of the Fittest, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books). However not even that is actual fact because “The phrase 'survival of the fittest' is often incorrectly attributed to Darwin. In fact, it was coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer in response to reading Origin of Species five years after the first edition was published.” (Survival of the fittest | Darwin Correspondence Project, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk › commentary › survival of the fittest).

Now before you get your underwear in a bunch, I presented the above to only get you to understand that often what we hear and take for gospel was never gospel at all but an excuse to try and appear justified in their belief that one group of people should be endowed with the power and privilege to rule over all others but I can’t help but wonder if these omni humans would be the fittest if they had to endure just a few of the things that those they attempt to rule over has.

Would they be able to tame a land and it’s multiple species inhabitants with crude man-made weapons like those manufactured by the cave man. Be careful now, you may be willing to try and claim the ancestry of the cave man but before your affix your tag, think on this. During the cave man time, there were very little forest or trees to protect them from the cancer-causing ultraviolet rays of the sun, so, as science teaches us, the human skin darkens to provide that protection in areas where trees are scarce. Still wish to claim that the cave man was your ancestor because since the color of people’s skin is all your use to judge their abilities and worthiness, the cave man skin would have been much darker than the ruling class.

How about if the current ruling class lived in a place where all the creatures of that place lived in harmony and those future subjects of the ruling class had been able to travel to any place and reside in any area before this ruling class predecessors appeared and stole every inch of that area not to mention attempts at taking their dignity as well. Now we can’t leave this question without addressing how those Native to this land also had all the inventions created and improved were ripped off as well.

And let’s not forget, the weaker sex. The ones who brought every single member of this ruling class life and raised your to see them as inferior, not worthy of thinking for themselves, taking care of themselves, and unable to master any other activity except those activities found in the kitchen.

Personally, I don’t think so. I think that if those who claim to be superior to all others had to endure just half of what those spoken about in this article had to, they would have quickly thrown up their hands and ran for the hills.