Thinkers had sought answers using their own reasoning faculty. But when Church was defeated and ousted from the mainstream of Europe, man stood naked under the sky, with the power of all his previous laws of conduct now lost their relevance, seeking ‘natural’ laws to guide his day to day conduct. When the Church was alive and ruling over every sphere of human activity, such questions never occurred, as human mind was not free. The time witnessed a frantic search for natural laws to support every act in every field. They were winning every where, despite initial set-downs at random encounters. But unfortunately, its negative influence is very real !ĭarwin lived in an age when Europeans were at the center of colonization of the world. No one has ever attempted to treat the ‘other’ from the standpoint of an enlightened being, and wait for his reaction, hence such a paradigm has never come up for discussion in the mainstream.It is true that Darwin had never intended his theories getting defined in the social context of human life that we have seen above. Man is not able to discard his fear of the other despite millions of years of our celebrated human civilization ! Whenever one encounters an ‘other’ in a real-life situation, he is cautious about the other’s intentions It compels you too to be cautious, like a chain reaction.This is a natural fear of the other, thanks to the existing socio-political ideologies in the world that basically believes in, as well as what men teach their young, the life-defining value of the theory of the ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘natural selection’ ! This day to day behaviour and natural tendency of modern man is adequate enough to defeat all the arguments against the influence of Darwinism in the mental makeup of modern man. The minds of the ones who internalized Darwin’s theory have installed it as an OPERATING SYSTEM for their mind: their every other thought and behaviour would run compatible with the base theory ! No interim alteration is possible, as it would be possible only if the base OPERATING SYSTEM is changed.
Or, a better way to understand this pattern is to compare it with a computer OPERATING SYSTEM.
The hidden knowledge of the theory works like a programmed toy in real life situations: it compels you to take a defensive position in your encounters with your fellow men. It is like a lever that always rises up the moment you touch it. No moral or ethical theory could win human mind over and above the belief in this sacred theory.
It is thought to be NATURAL LAW even in the present times,as it was in the past. Without any doubt, Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory is the first and foremost (negative) Dogma that is currently guiding most of our public as well as individual conduct.
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