Minimal Required

The intellect, our key to success, was how our ancestors decided to manage our survival. They must have been socially driven to prompt those physical changes that improved our ability to speak. We have had the wrong idea about our ancestral “cave” people. Cooperation was the key to survival. We didn’t develop speech to get over on each other.

Individualism, competition and Darwin economics are materialist promotions of jungle law that our ancestors had rose above. So our population grew to the point where outliers were bound to happen. If we had more reverence for our power of thought, we could have weathered the occasional psychopath. Instead, sociopaths imitated the social failings and personal greed practiced by the materially successful psychopath.

Sociopath leadership does not promote our forgotten human values. For example, in the past, someone with a physical ailment would not owe those who could be of assistance. Charging for health care is the antithesis of what it is to be a human being.

There is a school of thought that helping people makes them lazy, and people are only motivated by profit. Tough individualists may be proud of making it on their own, but may not communicate well or know how to collaborate. Long story short, Mutually Assured Destruction is a lousy plan B.

It seems as if half of us don’t meet the minimum requirements that it should take to be considered human. Materialists who give short shrift to human values should be considered “animals who can read and write”, or maybe “literate creatures”. Other than breeding, materialists and socialists are about as similar as the Eloi and Morlocks in Wells old “The Time Machine”. But it’s too hard and not realistic to try and squeeze them in under the umbrella of humanity.

We don’t want them near the animals, either. We’ll need more refuges or something.

The materialists could ride a wide open free market range. We can watch it devolve into one company.

We’ll have our growing stock in Human Values. It’s good that we call them shares.

Thank you for your time.