The Death of Darwinism

        Survival of the fittest refers to the established principle that more fit organisms, i.e. organisms having  advantages over their peers, will reproduce more often, thereby genetically advancing their population.

       In regards to first-world humans, this cycle has been broken, and we will soon be facing the consequences. Previous human evolution favored both the physically fit and the intelligent, the former is still likely true to a lesser degree, but the same cannot be said of the latter. The modern, intelligent woman is unlikely to devote her life to mothering children, and that is hard to criticize. Women have only recently been able to achieve the political and financial prominence available to them today, and this new found ability, along with the widespread availability of near perfect contraception, has pushed the number of children born to college educated women down. The non hispanic fertility rate for whites in the U.S. is 1.9, that is, every woman averages 1.9 children. This number needs to be about 2.1 for population maintenance. Yet this hides the fact that women from low income homes, a feature correlating strongly with lower intelligence, have artificially inflated the rate. In fact, the birth rate for women on welfare is three times the rate of women not on welfare. This evidence assures that our country is moving towards lower average intelligence, and because of this, lower productivity. What this means for our country is this; that as the current population ages, and it will almost certainly do so, there will be lower numbers of truly productive members of society to support them via social security payments and the natural advantages of a country with a high population of productive young adults.              

        For some perspective, we can use the example of GM, now fondly referred to as Government Motors. GM currently has 8 employees receiving pensionary benefits for every one person actually employed. This is decidedly unsustainable, and it is an only slightly exaggerated microcosm of the future of the U.S.. The most intellectually advanced Americans are not reproducing in a manner conducive to positive impact on a national scale. Higher levels of national average intelligence bear an established correlation with advanced societies, as can be witnessed in the high standard of living of any majority Anglo-Saxon nation. The reverse is also true, and as our national intelligence descends, so too will our standard of living, global prominence, and economic success.
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