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Entry: What's So Scary About Evolution?--For Both Left and Right, a Lot Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_so_scarry_about_evolution#26927 Post contents: <em>Unlike the theorem, though, it tells us things about ourselves we cannot bear to hear. For that reason, it will probably never have wide acceptance. </em> Why does this have to be the case? If you remember, eugenics was once American government policy and everybody assumed white superiority, and somehow people survived. Hell, race relations were better and we didn't have a lot of the pathologies we do today. Today's enviornmentalism is the current fad; there's nothing about it that is inherently more comforting than genetic determinism. Either way you're being deterministic, once the soul is gone. The true threat to a true understanding of human nature is living in a multi-cultural society and mass democracy. Every group gets their own version of reality and I don't see blacks or Mexicans ever just accepting their lot. That's America though, and maybe policy based on sanity and logic will occur in the European countries which remain overwhelmingly white. Sent at: 2008 12 01