File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9804, message 45


From: "John Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: The Varitey of Full Floom
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:02:06 -0500




>Tristich wrote:
>
>>The populations that "evolve"
>>are not the ones that win the competition for an ecological niche, they
are
>>the ones that get pushed to the fringe and then have the adaptive
>>"transitional" traits that allow them to adopt new behaviors to cope.
>
>A very salient point. And Nietzsche would seem to fully concur:
>
>"What surprises me most when I survey the broad destinies of man is that I
>always see before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or
>_want_ to see today: selection in favor of the stronger,
better-constituted,
>and the progress of the species. Precisely the opposite is palpable: the
>elimination of the lucky strokes, the uselessness of the more highly
>developed types, the inevitable dominion of the average, even the
>_sub-average_ types." (Will to Power 685)
>
>It seems to me that what Nietzsche is disputing here is not that evolution
>takes place, but a particular model of evolution, that of Darwinian
>"survival of the fittest." For Nietzsche, in other words, it would seem
that
>the real (straight-line) course of evolution as it occurs within groups is
>decadence--"the inevitable dominion of the average, even the _sub-average_
>types"--the lowest common denominator, in other words.
>
>Evolution of a new type, as such, can never occur from within a group, but
>only from an individual or set of individuals (a subgroup), which have
>either been marginalized from the group, or liberated from it by the demise
>or weakening of the group.
>
>Best,
>
>Steve C.
>

I think that Steve is really on to something here. Following his logic, and
using the powerful tool of the "science" of Darwinism, Steve is making the
case that apes evolved from man!!! I propose Steve's post be submitted to
the Nobel Committee for science, there is no doubt in this engineer's mind,
the Nietzsche List has a winner.
But wait, where does this process of eternal decadence end... why of course,
with a Darwinist-Marxist.

John T. Duryea



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