Serfing the social web: The biological evolution of minority rule

Finding a moral compass . . . without a compass

“…Essentially, Huxley, like every author then and still, had evolution his own way. For example, at the same time as Huxley, Francis Galton and others in the British intelligentsia were rather smugly worrying about the degeneration of society and the need to take control by eugenics — that is, by human imposed genetic selection — to favor the well‐endowed and reduce the less‐endowed members of society …”

“…For example, at the same time as Huxley, Francis Galton and others in the British intelligentsia were rather smugly worrying about the degeneration of society and the need to take control by eugenics -that is, by human imposed genetic selection -to favor the well-endowed and reduce the less-endowed members of society. 8 In addition, Herbert Spencer, the prominent public intellectual who coined the term "survival of the fittest," was a social Darwinist whose purportedly scientific assessment saw evolution to a final society built on some type of "fair" social inequity. Meanwhile, Marxism and other social-evolutionary theories made equity the ultimate goal of the ineluctable social process.…”

Life goes on

“…However, we probably needn't worry because if high-IQers waste their juices writing video games while dullards do what comes more naturally, the result will be a species in which individuals are unable to average even 100, but who are more seductive than destructive and hence, evolutionarily better, if duller, than we are today. 3 …”