Are you an endangered species?

Homo non sapiens

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My new article for coffeebuyers!

My new ”Special Article” (I really do need a new name for this kind of thing! ) is proceeding, nicely. In this long, heavily researched, referenced and illustrated article I posit the adaptation of humankind to a new geological epoch. Maybe even new speciation.

Just as the Paleocene ended thanks to climate change and we entered the Holocene, old ways of life – namely the hunting and gathering lifestyles that had supported us for 50,000 years — what Marshall Sahlins calls the “Original Affluent Society’ gave way to sedentist, agricultural tribal lifestyles and then to larger more complex “civilizations” , so too climate change is ending the Holocene and we face a new age remarkable for the changes that have occurred in the biosphere. We adapt or die.

Biologically speaking, Homo Sapiens is therefore an endangered species. Next: Homo Ludens.

Nature has its own way of dealing with any animal species that exceeds population limit and natural densities.

In a zoo, if you overcrowd a cage, you may find some dead animals there in the morning. Overcrowding can lead to violence.

That's just one problem.

In the wild, another problem is destruction of habitat and resources and resultant starvation.

Still another-- the most serious and most obvious-- is pandemic disease.

Humankind is doing pretty well – I mean pretty badly – in all areas

Another problem which is inevitable over time is genetic drift / shift, which leads to the mutations, which drive evolution.

In human beings we see more and more evidence of genetic drift and shift.

For example, as you probably know, the male Y chromosome appears to be unstable and gradually degrading— and may eventually just disappear altogether.

Bad news in the short-term probably— nobody really knows; certainly good news in the long-term since the instability of the Y chromosome results in genetic and epigenetic abnormalities.

So how do we adapt to this new age-- variously called the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene, in which human activities greatly accelerate natural climate change trends such as Heinrich events?

The West's neoliberal, neocolonial, neo-feudal-capitalist non-culture cannot cope. It is anti-progressive, anti-adaptive.

The only hope lies in in Russia and China's multipolar realism-- and new kinds of capitalism and social organization-- as well as cultural development.

To this end I have been looking at various writers including Picketty, Todd, Hudson, Wallerstein, Arrighi, and others. As well as biological studies.

As I've said before, the US is a maladaptive, evolutionary anachronism.

I suspect it will die sooner than people expect – rather like Joe Biden.

Like Biden it is constantly stumbling. Eventually the US will suffer a political stroke and slip in the bath and die.

It is sad when anyone passes— but not many people will cry for either the US or Biden.

Notes on how I write

I write from a personal point of view— disclosing who I am and how I feel— what kind of person I am. That's partly because I like the feeling of engagement and interaction— and know that people don't reciprocate unless I make the first step.

It is also because every person's opinions have a background or context. Mine too.

My ideas are shaped by my history and experience over the years. My readers deserve to get a sense of that— so they can see those ideas in the appropriate context. I do not just deliver the “news”— but analysis of events.

I hope you will like the special article that when it comes out. It expresses a lot of my interests which include paleontology, history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, biology, genetics— ad infinitum! Oh and SciFi.

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