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gone extinct and made room for us. Stuart Kauffman states in his book, At Home in the Universe that
“Speciation and extinction go roughly hand in hand. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the highest
rate of extinction, as well as speciation, occurred in the Cambrian [period] itself.” (p. 14)
Those humans who are concerned with preventing extinctions are therefore on the side of slowing down
progress. These people could be called conservatives and conservationists. One would think that
those terms go hand in hand. But the label of conservative would not be appropriate to use to describe
conservationists. Conservationists are allied with the “progressives” in a party called the Democrats.
Republicans are the other major party in the US. Republicans, as a general rule, don’t mind as much if
a few species get stepped on as long as civilization is progressing as a whole. This philosophy is called
conservative. Although these definitions seem backwards, they actually make sense. Nature, as Stuart
Kauffman points out above, is the way business has been conducted in the past and a belief that things
should continue being run that way is a obviously a conservative philosophy. But nature has caused
extinctions in the past as part of what it took for speciation, the creation of new and more advanced
species. Progress obviously relies on conserving the philosophy of nature which calls for extinction of
the old and speciation of the new. It is as obvious as the need for death and birth in the cycle of life of
any species. People who call themselves progressives want to redefine nature as being much kinder
and conservationist than it actually is. The term “progressive” is used to hide the true nature of humans
who want to prevent progress.
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“Speciation and extinction go roughly hand in hand. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the highest
rate of extinction, as well as speciation, occurred in the Cambrian [period] itself.” (p. 14)
Those humans who are concerned with preventing extinctions are therefore on the side of slowing down
progress. These people could be called conservatives and conservationists. One would think that
those terms go hand in hand. But the label of conservative would not be appropriate to use to describe
conservationists. Conservationists are allied with the “progressives” in a party called the Democrats.
Republicans are the other major party in the US. Republicans, as a general rule, don’t mind as much if
a few species get stepped on as long as civilization is progressing as a whole. This philosophy is called
conservative. Although these definitions seem backwards, they actually make sense. Nature, as Stuart
Kauffman points out above, is the way business has been conducted in the past and a belief that things
should continue being run that way is a obviously a conservative philosophy. But nature has caused
extinctions in the past as part of what it took for speciation, the creation of new and more advanced
species. Progress obviously relies on conserving the philosophy of nature which calls for extinction of
the old and speciation of the new. It is as obvious as the need for death and birth in the cycle of life of
any species. People who call themselves progressives want to redefine nature as being much kinder
and conservationist than it actually is. The term “progressive” is used to hide the true nature of humans
who want to prevent progress.
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