The Error that is Man

[Rodion Romanovich]

The original post is quite good, but focuses too much on the weaknesses in human nature that are difficult or impossible to solve, and those aren't rational to focus on. Such weaknesses as those in human nature are not problems, if you are just clever enough to know about their existence and counter or circumvent them. Man is not suited to living in civilization, since her instincts are adapted to act rationally in the society form that existed before it. Unfortunately, most human beings expect rationality in themselves and fellow members of their species.

That is the one and only weakness in man that is rational to criticise: that she doesn't realize that all society forms she has had since the birth of civilization (the historical counterpart to Adam and Eve's eating of the apple) are not suited to her. That she keeps criticising the weakness of herself (or more often: of all other members of the species but not himself/herself), rather than the one true weakness she has. For truly it isn't rational to believe that she is a 100% rational being in any environment, or should aspire to reach this impossible or nearly impossible goal, while ignoring and forgetting the simplest of all ways to avoid defeat: to avoid battle. It is irrational to expect or hope for 100% rationality in human beings: mankind has no rationale for being 100% rational in any environment- it is enough to be as rational as possible in the environments she is adapted to live in. What strikes me as the deepest form of stupidity in this species is how it constantly out of pride ignores the simple fact that she isn't perfectly rational, and that she stubbornly keeps creating society forms for a type of being that does not exist. That she keeps putting her own society form above her species, and claims it is individuals who are faulty, when the society form that was intented to be created for mankind, turned out to not suit it well.

So why concentrate on criticising an animal for being an animal? Instead concentrate on criticising an animal for trying to be some endlessly rational, unrealistic being that it is not! And for time after time be surprised when a society created without any thought of compensating for or circumventing the weaknesses in human nature, causes trouble when you put real people in it.