Cultural Evolution and its Discontents - 9780367030247

Taylor & Francis

Cultural Evolution and its DiscontentsCognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure\nAuthor(s): Robert Watson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367030247, 978-0367030247\nSynopsis\nPeople worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures may seize control of our world and destroy whats uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems especially those whose last names are \""ism\"" are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, theyve blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure.\n\nThe assemblages of ideas that have survived, like the assemblages of biological cells that have survived, are the ones good at protecting and reproducing the.