Individual versus Tribe

As described in Darwin’s “Descent of Man”, there is high probability for a virtuous tribe to survive over one which is disloyal and disobedient; however, when it comes to individual versus individual, oftentimes, it is the disloyal and overall immoral who tends to survive over the more virtuous individual.

The problem that modern day society faces is that the masses of people around the world have been surrounded by an ever growing trend of degeneracy, which is bound to win over and furthermore, ruin our chances of progression. We are surrounded in every grocery line up, corner store, hair salon, doctor’s office, television set or by the internet. Everywhere we are, whether it be in the safe haven we call home, or out and about in our communities, we are surrounded by the countless ‘headlines’ that make every gossip blog, television show and magazine. The daily happenings of these media figures has become a regular on virtually every news cast, which all tend to add on their nightly segments of ‘entertainment news’. These individuals such as Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton or Britney Spears have coated our society with a decaying film, which has seeped into our own daily happenings. Our watchful eyes are easily lured into perezhilton.com (an extremely popular media website), versus wanting to read informative journalism about what is happening around the world--in Iraq, Sudan or Sierra Leone (issues that if regularly discussed as Britney‘s new hair colour is, may promote ideas of progression). Rather, our daily appetites for knowledge are cheaply filled by celebrity websites and tabloids that inform us of what crazy outfit Britney Spears wore this morning, how she yet again managed to make it trashy, what rehab Lindsay Lohan checked herself into or what posh club Paris partied at last night. We ourselves become materialized by watching the decay of these modern starlets and furthermore, we begin to seldom challenge our own immoral behaviour, due to the absolute degeneracy we compare it (our behaviour) to. Thus, Darwin would make the argument that our morals suffer because of these degenerates that have been selected as the “role models” for our youth. Like Darwin states, treacherous and immoral peoples, tend to pass on these characteristics. Therefore, this is how degeneracy spreads, and progression comes to a stagnancy. At this time, Darwin would most likely suggest that we should try to detain such degeneracy, either by putting such peoples in ‘confinement’ or simply, allow them to destroy each other or themselves.