The Two Faces of Feminism
Rollo Tomassi (real name George Miller) is one of the popularisers of the red-pill worldview. According to Rollo, this means being aware of the facts of evolutionary biology and psychology. And in a recent article called ‘The Human Equation,’ he outlines what he thinks this involves. All the main points are wrong. It reads like it was written by someone who dresses like a ’90s backup dancer, and that’s because it was.
His confusion is evident from the start. ‘Why would evolution,’ he asks, ‘prioritize the proliferation of a species at the expense of the individual organism?’ But of course evolution doesn’t have priorities. As Darwin explained, it’s totally meaningless. Using goal-directed language like ‘prioritize’ entails goals, but evolution doesn’t have any. The watchmaker, on this worldview, is blind.
Yet Rollo can’t help talking in terms of meaning. As he says, “only humans agonize over the meaning of life,” including himself. But why this should be the case doesn’t seem to bother him at all. As Aristotle said, man is the only rational animal: only man has the power of conceptual thought, and only man has free will. We make choices based on what we judge to be good.
But Rollo doesn’t even register the eight exclusively human activities that man’s rationality results in:
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