BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: New American Standard Bible, Naomi Klein, Voluntary Childlessness
27 Nov 2016
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The big four human drives: leisure, legacy, survival, sexual/ familia. Meaning through delusions: cultural evolution is 1 damned delusion after another. Darwinian framework: natural selection passes genes/ allele to the right on of the graph shown. Death-denying" mechanism favoured by natural selection: allowed for the creation of anxiety buffers. Optimal amount of anxiety -> best number for fitness: too weak or crippling will be bad, needs to find good balanced between both extremes for buffers. The four subselves" activation by evolutionary cues: legacy drive, survival drive, sexual/ familia drive, leisure drive. Signals talented mind/ intelligent of individual: self-impermanence anxiety buffer, sexual needs: legacy vs leisure drives. Attraction to sport -> like religion -> devotion to a team: pride and pleasure in commonality with groups (social) Digital culture of social media and the internet: legacy drive via recognition, leisure drive via entertainment.
