Human Cultures, Too, Require Re-Engineering

Human Cultures, Too, Require Re-Engineering

Genetic engineering is not only for plants or animals.
Rational steering is required also for cultural evolution.

A. “Virtual reality and the 21st century world economy collapse”:

The 21st century world economy collapse is a collapse of a culture, of the 20th century technology culture, of its values and attitudes and ethics and morals. The world’s population is still (March 2009) clinging desperately to the collapsed concepts and expectations and makes a huge painful effort to revive the collapsed culture, instead of to steadfastly modify it. It is sadly and exasperatingly obvious that the economy collapsed due to adherance to absurd virtual reality concepts and expectations, and that the only hope to survive and overcome the collapse is to understand its nature and to plan, and embark on, a course to a new, science-based, more rational, virtual reality culture.

B. Common human culture cannot be enforced?

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/120/122.page#1625

“What Dov Henis writes I tend to disagree. Common human culture can not be enforced. Culture is like evolution. It happens over spans of time by selection. The process is slow. It is by nature assimilative. We tend to gloss over differences and drive roughshod. This is a mistake. Culture is popular knowledge assimilation. You try to speed up the process and the elastic snaps. Cultures wherever are to be respected and knowledge reverse engineered to appreciate the foundations of the cultures”, writes Sharbani Ranjan Kundu.

C. Survival mandates rational steering of some human cultural evolutions

What Sharbani writes I tend to disagree. Nowadays human culture can be “enforced”, steered. Until few hundreds of years ago specific human cultural phenotypes used to evolve over lengths of time by “natural selection”, which, BTW, is also “enforced” - by circumstances and environments. But in recent human history “selection” has been more and more “enforced” by some on other human cultural phenotypes, like in post WWII Japan and Germany.

Throughout life’s evolution “culture” used to evolve over spans of time in response to “enforcement” by a variety of factors including circumstances, invading genes or other organisms, or invading different cultural phenotypes. However, in recent human history humans have been playing god more and more, interfering with natural “natural selection”, accelerating cultural evolutions of many organisms, including humans’.

If you do not speed up some “enforced” evolutionary processes, the elastic snaps. You allow and promote evolution of destructive catastrophes. Wise and prudent cultural phenotypes would elect and promote rational self re-education and re-orientation.

However, human cultural phenotypes, whatever and wherever they are, that threaten the genotypic evolution of welfaring humanity, should neither be “respected” nor “understood”. The extent of their factual and potential threat should be assessed rationally and those cultures should be “engineered” to evolve without a threat to other human cultural phenotypes or to international welfare.

Suggesting,

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
EVOLUTION Beyond Darwin 200
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=405&#entry396201
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/100/122.page#1407