Wirt Atmar  wrote:

> Malcom writes:
> 
> >Hitler has understood that natural selection, generally, acts on the
> >individual. However he then offers a "good of the
species" argument for not
> >interfering with evolutionary processes. Usually we associate a belief in
> >group selection with political liberals, so this is a bit incongruous.
> 
> If that's the case, and I have no reason to dispute your analysis, there must
> have been an enormous wave of optimism and progressive thought that must have
> swept over the world 540-570 mya, just prior to the "Cambrian
Explosion", when
> individual, free-living cells -- who up to that time had fervently advocated a
> "live free or die" stance -- first adopted the radical, if
not outrightly
> socialist political position of task-partitioned multicellularity as a way to
> achieve the liberal uptopian goal of cooperative complexity.
> 
> Wirt Atmar

But then came World War I (the Permian extinction), and all that
progressivism fell prey to fashionable conservatism.
-- 
John Wilkins
wilkins.id.au
"Men mark it when they hit, but do not mark it when they miss" 
                                               - Francis Bacon
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