Well, I’ve been meaning to write another blog for a while, and my friend Sean’s blog certainly had an obvious enough prompt for a topic. He talks about sexuality, homo-sexuality along with its reasoning and implication. I must admit I very much agree with his viewpoint – does it really make a difference?
Well, anyhow…evolution. We have all been raised within an educational framework that teaches us about evolution to some extent. Mr Darwin’s legacy lives on strong and proud within the western mindset specifically, a legacy of evolution whereby we physically adapt to encompass changes within our biological needs. This is indeed true and I think at this point only the religiously ignorant feel the need to discredit the concept of evolution.
But surely there is more, and I think that has become evident as humans develop more. With most other animals, all changes that have been needed are physical due to this being almost the sole governing factor in an animals existence. Emotional qualities are still at the low end of development. For the human animal though, our physical capabilities are in fact diminishing, being overtaken by our emotional, sensory and sexual needs.
I think is it becoming quite evident that evolution is in fact working in these areas also. But I will just look at sexuality for now.
Homosexuality has often been a topic of hot debate. Originally thought of as a mental disorder, later thought of as a personal choice and the current popular theory is that it is in fact a natural body response. I must admit, I sit on the fence between personal choice and natural response. My reason being is that I think homosexuality is an evolutionary response to overpopulation. The human collective is more than capable of this level of response, post-second world war being an example, with the baby boom of male babies – without that male baby boom to restore the balance society would have in fact suffered considerably due to full scale society gender imbalance. Where we suffer now is from serious over-population, a topic which no MP would go near with a barge pole, they would rather waste every ones time saying carbon footprints, reduce your emissions, do this do that instead of saying “for crying out loud people, you don’t HAVE to have a baby”, but that’s OK, nature is here to do a better job than any mouthy politician. Take a person, have them fancy the same sex – hey presto, no baby! One step closer to population control.
Simplistic view, but it works. I do believe though that at the moment we are midway and so there are many people who are gay by personal choice only, and those who are gay from just simply “being gay”. Is there a way to tell the difference? Nah, I don’t think so – it would be easy to say “those who camp it up are making a statement and fall in the choice category” but I really don’t think it is as clear cut as that.
We are a physically defunct species pretty much, by comparison anyway, and so we must start keeping a beady eye on the rest of our functions if we want some advance warning of how we are going to change. I’m not saying we wont have further physically changes, but if we do I think they would be a more “downgrade” form of change a change that is secondary to accommodate a sensory/sexual/emotional change.
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