Are we humans an evolutionary mistake?

[ladjf]

55. I totally agree with your thinking.

I want to point out that most of our behaviors are based of survival necessities from the past. Our problem stems from the fact that the challenges to survival are changing at an exponential rate making it difficult for us to adapt. Yet, adapt we must if we wish to survive.

"The driving force for a competitive nature, greed and arrogance are likely a result of evolutionary survival of the fittest. "

If greed and arrogance continue to drive our behavior, we weren't the fittest. The "fittest" are those with enough analytic al skill to see that raw physical power is no longer the key. Connections and quality of life issues are part of an individual's personal set of values with regard to what does and doesn't work. There are already millions of humans who have reached this level of enlightenment. But, they are outnumbered by the less enlightened who are, by their lack of comprehension. selecting the wrong leaders.

Interestingly enough, Socrates, in the Dialogues of Plato circa 400 B.C.E discussed this very issue.

This paragraph by Hokusai might be interesting to some people on DU.

"From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. but all I have done before the the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokosai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing." -- Hokusai

(Japan's most famous watercolor painter of the 19th Century)

I believe that Bernie had his "Hokusai moment" during the past few years. He realized how somethings about the "patterns of " politics and decided to act upon them for the benefit of his fellow Americans. He might be "The Old Mad Mad about politics."
America is fortunate to have citizens of his stature who are willing to lead us.