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The best critique of libertarianism I know of is that you were never an individual self in the first place, you’re already an ecosystem of parts. It’s teamwork all the way down

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the building block is the selfish gene

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But that probably comes and goes with peaks and trough back to our dawn

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…except that what turns out to be selfish isn't fixed. It's based on context, which is also mostly a kind of ecosystem.

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We should seek to transcend our evolutionary limitations, not be enslaved by them

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The selfish gene is a great meme. Too bad it’s so wrong | Aeon Essays

For decades, the selfish gene metaphor let us view evolution with new clarity. Is it now blinding us?

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Positive-sum games, built upon compassion, built, in turn, upon consciousness, which, paradoxically, is a result of the blind (selfish) watchmaker doing their thing...