MODERNITY AND HUMANITY

 

To illustrate this article, I did what I usually do, I search the Internet for an image that can be used. I found this one on a webpage called ''Genetic Literacy Project'', giving credit to a source called 'Medium'. I think it illustrate well the article below, with its mix of very new (a techno-robotic hand) and very old (a live/divine human hand).

But then, on the same webpage, I also found this very informative and very fascinating schematic rendering of an evolutionary tree showing the formation of very early human groups. Immediately below, you'll find the coordinates available on this entity called Genetic Literacy Project, plus, at the very bottom of this article, some personal comments on the above image.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/10/26/here-is-when-and-how-humans-attained-behavioral-modernity/

Email address: info@geneticliteracyproject.org

X (Twitter) address: @GeneticLiteracy

 

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Some parts of human life can improve, some can't, like the private parts and the brain of a human individual.

It's always possible to improve on most elements of our way of solving problems, and blissfully ignoring what cannot be bettered, but there's something about human nature that just cannot be improved on, since it is the most despicable, baseless part of our being. Human nature is not good, in real life, but as black as can be. In popular culture, it is sometimes illustrated in a twin-like representation: the first twin being an angelic, white angel on one shoulder, with the other, quite different figure is shown on the other shoulder, usually red-caped, with horns on its head, and kind of scary looking, the devil being of course a fallen angel in the Christian tradition most Westerners are familiar with, including the writer.

It is a symbolic representation that is interesting, since popular culture reflects current or past knowledge. There was a time when knowledge, now called science, was called differently. At an age when atomic clock, war-drones or space shuttle were unknown concepts describing then-unknowable objects doing then-unknowable feats, religion was often seen as current knowledgeable, the kind that is believe because, at that time, well, there was nothing else to believe in.

There is a great difference between religions and philosophies. In the Western science, religion is simply a matter of belief, while philosophy is considered more honorable, because it is perceived as being a matter of conceptual thinking, based on believable ideas, able to resist the test of time and, these days, the scientific method.

Buddhism, hence, was, at first, a philosophy, before it was slowly transformed into a kind of religious, ritualized strands of traditions that have managed to stay active for more that 2.500 years, mainly a Theravada strand in Southeast Asia and a Far-East Strand in China, Vietnam or Japan. In China, itself, Buddhism coexists with Confucianism, a mode of thinking that encourage worshiping ancestors and elders, while respecting all forms of authority, something ideal for managing an enormous empire made up of tens of millions of people, not all of them Han. In Japan, Buddhism coexists with Shintoism, home-grown and tailormade for the needs of that particular people.

The three great monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the same tradition splayed over many millennia. Each of those competing sees itself as a kind of improvement, if not upgrade, upon the preceding one. The first one, chronologically, is the Jewish religion, which appeared among Hebrew-speaking Hebrews. The Old Testament tells the long, difficult, and often bloody history of the Jews among the peoples of the Middle East. Christianity, for its part, is based upon the life and death of Christ, a Jew that was rejected by Jewish religious authorities, before being summarily executed by the Romans. As for Mohammed, he is believed by the Muslims to be the very last Prophet, the preceding one being Christ himself.

All those systems of beliefs still exist, today, having resisted the test of time, through the millennia, then the slow appearance of the scientific method with different results. Christianity, in modern time, more or less after the period called the Medieval Age has clearly suffered most from the gradual emergence of the scientific method, because of its many miraculous elements that are difficult to believe without sufficient proof.

The Immaculate Conception, that is to say, the virginal birth of Jesus, son of Mary, the Mother of God, is one of the most, if not the most, difficult to believe part of Christianity, since it rely on a biological impossibility to serve as the main basis for the whole thing, becoming thus an article of faith.

Many other things can be rationalized away, or else rationally explained, but not that one. It ran counter to everything rural peoples living among nature, animals, plants could believe, sexual reproduction being essential for the survival of any species. It most be said, here, that contrary to some misconceptions, mammals are not the only animals using sexual reproduction to collectively survive. It is (or was) also the case of species of fishes, insects, reptiles, dinosaurs, batrachians, marine mammals, marsupials, batrachians, etc.

The gender theory that was briefly in vogue, recently, especially among the youngest among humans, is an illustration of an attempts made by tenants of modern Western feminism to overturn a difficulty: how to attain complete equality between men and women? How to be equal and different at the same time?

The solution is simple: two gigafactories and three slightly smaller ones.

The first gigafactory will be in China, and the second, in America.

The smaller gigafactories will be in Europe, more precisely in Germany, the others, in India and Africa.

The two gigafactories will be run by Tesla, if Elon Musk accept to take them under his wings. The three mega factories will be run by Apple, if the ghost of its founder agrees, of course.

All of them will be serviced by Amazon, under the leadership of Jeff Bezos. They will used drones provided by Richard Branson, creator of Virgin Galactic.

All five factories, the two giga and the mere mega, will used the most advanced biotechnologies, with ingredients taken from asteroids, in order to produce biologically perfect babies.

The concept is that people wishing to have babies, but not with the old fashion, discredited way, will simply used their smartphones to order custom-made babies, specifying all their individual parameters: weight, height, color, sex, political and sexual orientation, life expectancy, and preferred charities.

Each baby, produced in mere minutes, will be taken to its paying customer by superfast hyper-drone, with a small detour through low orbit, if necessary, to gain as much time as possible.

All profits will be put into a special fund dedicated to the reconstruction of societies destroyed or maimed by the sexual revolution that hit, with full frontal violence, the coast of California, both south (sul) and north (norte) of the natural divide between NORCAL and SOCAL. Profits will be used to finance desalination plants to replenish the aquifers in the whole of California, epicenter of said revolution and possible victim of the Big One. All of mankind has to do something to help SOCALifornicating and NORCALifornicating Californians in their time of past, present and future needs.

As for the human brain, no substitute has not yet been found for its replacement The brain of Albert Einstein, carefully preserved since his death, can possibly be cloned, but since there's only one brain, one has to be as careful as with the Saint Suaire of Torino. Tests must be made, carefully, neuron by neuron, taking as much time as relatively possible in this four-dimensional universe.

Will monsieur Musk help by donating in advance his own brain, before his natural death, that is, hence donating another interesting cervelle for scientific examination?

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