Actually, it's more of a rational/logical perspective on Woke culture than a Darwinian one.
Darwinism may have been disproved because of a lack of transitional fossils (and doubted for other reasons), but the effects on our species of the survival of children who would, in previous generations, not have survived is much more than theory, Darwinian or otherwise.
It's a simple fact.
Our species is weakened when weaker children--physically and mentally weaker--grow up and procreate.
I not passing judgment...just stating a fact.
Now there are arguments that survival by weaker children takes and/or produces a greater strength of character and determination, so that is a countervailing element to consider.
“Now there are arguments that survival by weaker children takes and/or produces a greater strength of character and determination, …”
Yes if the weakness is physical but the mind is otherwise possessed of the beneficial attributes. The weakness the author is talking about is mental/moral. We are literally surrounded by people who’d starve to death if we did not pay the taxes we work to pay. These are people who are attacking the order that allows them to attack the order, if that makes any sense.
Good points.
Perhaps I was being too general, but when he repeatedly states “we were selecting for” certain traits, I assumed he meant a Darwinian selection in principle.
I’m not prepared to argue whether or not Darwinian selection is the way we came to exist. (In fact, I don’t see any conflict in believing that both intelligent design and Darwinian selection are at play.)
Regarding your last statement, many have been brainwashed into thinking “diversity is good,” which makes no sense unless one considers context (e.g. would diversity in IQ have made the Manhattan Project more successful?). Please note that I’m not at all saying we should “kill off the weak.” I’m only pointing out the lack of logic in some of the things our culture now holds as “truth.”
Welfare enables underclass women to have lots of kids, while middle class women have few or none.
In the past, poor women would would go to work helping to raise the kids of the middle class.