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%ADAPTABILITY 770721
Humans have become the dominant life form on earth
because of their high degree of adaptability. Not only
can humans adapt to unfavorable environmental situations,
they can adapt the environment to conform to their wishes.
Through their dominant tendencies they can transform the
environment into preconceived forms chosen by humans,
built by humans, and maintained by humans. Since such
forms are not natural order forms, energy must be
continually expended to maintain the artificial order
forms. Such programs of systematic maintenance are a
feature of the human adaptability. The programs are
conservative---maintaining an artificial status quo,
because the natural ecological system does not maintain it
naturally.
Human conservative programs are applied to more than
the external environment; they are applied to the internal
psychic environment. For humans an aspect of the
environment is the psychic environment created by human
associates. For some humans their total environment is a
man-made environment; there being no awareness of a
natural ecosystem nor its principles of balanced
processes. The man-made-environment is more than the
physical environment of roads, power lines, houses, sky-
scrapers, airplanes, electromagnetic communication; it is
also the psychic world of perception, belief, faith,
tradition, culture, knowledge, taboos, collusions, etc.
This psychic environment is an environment which humans
must survive in. Humans are very adaptable to their
environment---whether it be physical, natural, man-made,
psychic, or of some other nature.
Human adaptations often occasion perverse man-made-
environments: Such adaptation tend to accentuate the
perversity of the perverse environment to which they are
responsive. If such is the case, then the adaptations may
be successful for the individual, but not for the species.
The cumulative holistic effect of many perverse individual
adaptations is likely to be destructive for the species---
as perverse individuals succeed and reproduce their kind
through perverse adaptations at the expense of non-
perverse individuals. When that happens the evolutionary
process has turned in on itself in a blind way which will
occasion an inhumane development of the human race.
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