<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" >if hominids picked up a solar panel 100,000 years ago, would human evolution rewrite it? </h1>
To understand this question, we must first know, what is the direction of human evolution guided by?
Is it the naturalness of man, or the sociality of man, or, rather, culturality?
In fact, man's cultural nature precedes man's naturalness as a species! Incredible, right?
According to research, this social connection of culture has existed for 2 million years or more, 10 to 15 times earlier than Homo sapiens in time, while what human biologists call "anatomically modern man" only appeared 50,000 years ago.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > biologists have shown that the human brain is a social organ that evolves under pressure to maintain relatively expanded, complex, and united social relations that shape people into cultural animals. </h1>
Evolution is not biological, and the evolution of man is essentially not the selection of individuals by the laws of evolution, but the role of the laws of evolution in the human species.
The cultural nature of human beings is the compass of evolution.
If primitive people had picked up a solar panel 100,000 years ago, the evolution of this species would have been completely rewritten.
Because the way people live and cooperate will be reversed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="23" What is the nature of life >? The master anthropologist Salis tells us that the essence of life is a symbolic, organized collective ritual. </h1>
What is the so-called "symbolically organized life"?
Live according to the meaning we have constructed ourselves.
Man must live in culture, even if he is isolated, he can not be far from the cultural system, the past social connections will dominate his life in the form of language, tools and so on.
This social connection, i.e., cultural, can exist in the form of physical objects or in the form of biological-emotional connections.
Therefore, the solar panels of 100,000 years ago, in the history of human evolution, are enough to set off a butterfly effect.
When we understand evolution, we may wish to consider a profound question:
What is the essence of human nature?
That sounds a bit abstract, right? For example, a baby is not a complete person, and a child is not an unaccompeted animal.
Children become human beings in the process of growing up in the process of socialization, through the cultural shaping of thought or spirit, and if a baby grows up in a wasteland isolated from culture, he cannot evolve into a "human" in his lifetime.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > human nature is a special form of culture. </h1>
The essence of human nature is cultural—
All of human beings' inner needs, impulses, or dispositions depend on symbolic definitions, that is, cultural orders, such as eating is not just a full stomach, it becomes a ritual of life, three times a day, and different regions have different diets; for example, love is not just for reproduction, it constructs intimate relationships between people.
When we accurately recognize that human nature comes from the cultural order, and the essence of life is cultural meaning, we will find spiritual refuge in the cultural system constructed by our ancestors.
If human nature is wrongly reduced to selfish animality, and life is simplified into endless profit-seeking behavior, human beings will eventually fall into the abyss of biological desires and lead to the evil consequences of human degradation.
This is Sarins' vigilance against American neoliberalism, and why not a critique of American culture?