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Never discard a genius’s idea… | blogjou

Daniel S. Milo

Good Enough - The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society

p. 62
03 Oct 2023

Never discard a genius's idea...


Never discard a genius’s idea. I uphold that although the domestication analogy is wrong, it can render great service to knowledge if, and only if, it is turned on its head. Instead of inferring natural selection from artificial selection, we should infer from emestication what nature is not. In what follows, I explore what breeders do in order to isolate how their values and activities produce results different from what occurs in nature. We will see here the true source of the eugenic and capitalistic ethics ascribed to evolution: not natural law but human hybris.