Innovation, Natural Selection and Erosion

Innovation conventionally reduces the work required to accomplish tasks. As the power of convenience makes it easier to compound human creativity, wondrous creations are made possible. Creations that make life easier, and more task oriented are within reach every year. Innovation is naturally just a process that refines an already working system, in a steady state such as the one America is debatable in at the moment, innovation can become addicting. As we create marvelously artful gadgets and solutions to daily first world annoyances, we create a sort of dependency. This dependency comes from habits formed in relation to the innovative services we have addicted ourselves and the next generations to. The integration of innovative forces, electricity in particular, will continue to degrade the human race and its physical ability, work ethic and decisiveness (which is outlined in the causal argument). The ripple effects of innovation are intricate, frustrating, extensively counter intuitive defying logic in every sense of the word.

Natural selection and evolution are basically taught as fact in every school around the world with the exception of the deviating few christian and private schools. Natural selection suggests that in every generation of evolutionary leaping, the strongest in that generation will survive. This is incredibly counter empathetic, inconsiderate and cold. While we are taught that humans are descendants of “other” animals, we still choose to separate ourselves from them in terms of how we think we evolve. For innovation to exist we cannot be done evolving, for natural selection to exist we cannot continue innovating and for innovation to exist we cannot say that we plan to evolve and are therefore already done. There is a brutal cycle of inconsistencies if we choose to bundle innovation, evolution and natural selection into the same basket. The resulting picnic would be a cross between Hitler, Nikola Tesla and the Pope. None of those mentalities can commune with all three at the same time.

The physical capabilities of the human body have largely been altered in many generational niches by innovative, well meaning, mostly electrical devices. Nearly every commodity that could ever come to mind is now gained with a considerable decrease in physical output. Transportation has changed with the development of cars, planes and elevators. Everything is geared towards speed. Physical labor once required to produce energy is quickly being extinguished by new innovative fuel sources. Buttons have replaced much of our physical output  requirements. Do not misunderstand me, innovative devices are not inherently bad, in fact, they are extremely beneficial. The benefits of any system human kind employs has always come from using the system in moderation. While furthering preexisting efficiency, innovation kills off what is deemed unnecessary from the past to boost the productivity of what is current.

A simple conversation with a business owner in the trades will leave any mind in question baffled. While over the decades younger generations grow up with innovative new systems of living, they grow less acquainted with physical labor and muscular output beyond building a physical appearance. Work ethic is what those employers in the trades want. But as innovation compounds the natural order of things, work ethic will die. It is not uncommon for procrastination to hinder the work the millennial generation sets out to accomplish in everyday life. Innovation has created a green house for ever flowing entertainment that numbs and pleasures the lives of every new generation. The addiction to constant pleasure is one that is very difficult to extract the mind from, simple chores in life remain undone and eventually the work required to sustain that life cannot be done. Innovation while good, subtly erodes the foundation on which it stands.

Intelligence is almost by a paradox destroyed by innovation. Skills that are usually built over the course of a child hood are lost to a technological piggy back ride. Natural selection relies heavily on the pedigree of the previous generation. While human intelligence solves all of the worlds problems, it creates ones that never existed before. Just like Monsanto and the super weeds created by accident, innovation creates super weeds in society that are very difficult to fix once they have taken root in culture and the minds of the young. Manufacturing convenience erodes the very foundation of the infrastructure it is producing.

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