Cool’s Cost

In our current social structure the breeding out of compassion, lethality, self
control, and intelligence is inevitable.

Society’s rules have inadvertently halted evolution and the resulting

-hopefully- unintentional quasi-eugenic effect will have one drastically hideous draw
back unless the focus of mate selection is altered, or transhumanist ideals are
adopted obviating mate selection as a factor in species adaptation altogether; the
breeding out of intelligence.

In the hierarchy of traits related to human mate selection; wealth, beauty,

and ‘cool’ have been placed above intelligence.

Mate selection is the process that is supposed to reward the fit -that is those
most likely to survive- with offspring while denying the unfit offspring for the net
result of making the species more likely to survive. Mate selection, it must be noted,
can only directly influence the survival rate gap between birth and procreation. Long
term benefits of this system are purely bonus, hence the massive number of extinct
species. Only directed, individually centered, transhumanist evolution has even a
prayer of truly advancing our long term goal with any certainty. But until then there
are some things we can do that will aid our survival.

Over the past two hundred thousand years humans -and our precursors-
selected a mate because of properties that had a real, tangible, practical value in
their respective settings, physical durability, and fertility being chief among them.
Then came intelligence which changed things, because now maybe a smaller less
fertile mate was quick witted enough to get around or simply kill a physically larger
or more fertile, yet slow witted, competitor.

But now fashion, and culture in general, has blurred how mates are selected
by preventing a clear vision of each other and their evolutionary value. The fact that
you can’t see intelligence, only some of its product, doesn’t help matters much.
Now we cannot see each other in terms of mate selection because clothing and
culture allow us to hide who we really are, and what we are -and are not- really
capable of.

Picture the thousands of archetypes of human around today, goths, jocks,

thugs, punks, geeks, musicians, rednecks, and so on. Thousands of combinations of
clothing and speech pattern suddenly introduced as middlemen between human
and human. This accumulation of tools for deception is causing a drop in the genetic
average intelligence level of the human gene pool. Women are getting ‘cuter’, men
are losing self control -with regard to both sex and greed- and both are getting
dumber at the top. While at the bottom, people are becoming more fecund, ugly,
brutal, and oblivious. Genius for its own sake is being left out completely. We are
witnessing a species division.

The one basis that a mate was supposed to be selected on, actually fitness
-not just physical with the emergence of intellect- is now forever hidden behind
worlds of fashion and social order. Now it’s not about a mate being ‘fit’ physically,
emotionally, or otherwise, it’s about them being ‘cool’. Or put another way, simply
appearing fit. The illusion of fitness is replacing fitness, and the most serious
problem with that should be obvious.

Granted those of extreme intelligence sometimes do very well in human

society, but other times it can be crippling. High intelligence people many times
commit suicide because of their social exclusion at a time when they begin to
discover the truly deep existential problems. The foundation of human society is a
core of individuals who -surviving this emotional minefield- see past the arbitrary
and focus on objective practical need.

The spread of ‘cool’ along with monogamy, and stringent safety measures,
will slow humanity’s production of cell biologists, physicists, mathematicians,
ecologists and so on. Think about it, who wants to go to school for 20 years and get
zero sex for being a ‘geek’, end up with a 30K a year job packed with stress when
one can sit at home, trash their brain and DNA with drugs, focus on being cool, get
laid all the time and take a shot at being a multi millionaire as per rock stars? This is
why they sell more guitars to out of pawn shops then they do books on chemistry.

Luckily the ultra fit among the human population is currently capable of
supporting the teaming masses of cool-stupid, some have even managed to make
economic use of them like so much cattle -Hot Topic, Britney Spears, Bush, etc-. The
fit are also creating a technological substrate for us to imprint upon that may well
obviate biological evolution entirely. But these ultra fit don’t breed very much and
what’s worse, their offspring often culturally interbreed, thus limiting the sorts of
cross discipline advancements that keep us at the top of the food chain. The doctors
marry doctors, scientists marry scientists, and so on. This effect, forced by the
exponential expansion of the cool-stupid population -which excludes all others or at
least denies them breeding rights thanks to monogamy- will cause the very system
-that allows the cool to thrive- to collapse as the ones that really keep society
together will interbreed until they themselves are stupid, or are denied mates
entirely. And as the diversity of their pool shrinks, -since smart couples often have
only one child- and homogeneity marches on, stagnation and eventual oblivion is
the result. The days of genius are numbered.

Intelligence, which originally evolved as a way around having to spend food

energy on physical power, has been gutted of its tactical value by law and social
order. The original order was based on permanently removing a competitor, thus
preventing them from breeding. That has now been prevented for the most part.
The goal of this lethality has been reduced to rank centered wounding instead of
killing, antler bashing, in effect. Note the ubiquitous occurrence of a young large
males fighting over one female or their own rank, which typically only matters
because of a female’s unwillingness to share, or allow sharing. And vice versa. This
presents an obvious problem since now it’s back to being a brute that can help one
get a mate, not intelligence, since intelligence in this context at best could be used
to fake being cool-stupid. The emotional consequence of which is a whole other
paper, and a waste of resources, specifically the mind of the genius. One of the
fighters will get the mate, but what about the smaller yet more intelligent -not to
mention kinder and calmer- person in the same social circle? He -or she, women do
occasionally fight over men- now is not even in the running to breed because
intelligence evolved to work around strength by killing it, not beating it up in some
primitive ritual. Martial arts I am told is a partial solution to the problem but it still
requires a level of physical skill that, and what I would call an unhealthy focus on
the body. Time learning aikido could better be spent, learning medicine for example.
And if it became a social structure, where martial arts skill was the norm, then again
raw size would become an advantage.

A small intelligent human could kill two much larger and more violent humans
given time and planning thus acquiring at least a shot at the mate but then he or
she would be punished by society. Conversely, society will punish those fighting to a
much lesser extent, if at all, since murder is worse from its perspective than assault
as it deprives the hive of a malleable worker, which geniuses rarely are. Especially if
that fighting is contained to one rank. Hoods beating up hoods gets a whole
different reaction than hoods beating up yuppies. But again, whole other essay.

The stinging paradox created by this situation should be obvious now, it is

that the stupid breed faster than the intelligent, and intelligence is what allows our
population to continue breeding. Well past the 6. 6 billion mark as of this writing.
The intelligent have created a non-stressed environment, an alternative to the harsh
stressed setting which gave birth to intelligence in the first place. And the stupid are
breeding so fast from within this relative utopia that they may just choke the life out
of it, like a virus thriving off the mechanism of cell it does not realize will soon
explode from the pressure. As the intelligent tackle the logistical problems
associated with the care and feeding of 6.6 billion morons, those same morons seek
ever more effective ways of annihilating the intelligent and consuming their
resources.

On top of all this, society is breeding out self control as well, along with
intelligence. The majority of contemporary women for example now lose their
virginity before the age where they can legally have sex. As a result of lack of
control on both sides, -this is not a gender issue- the United States has the highest
teen pregnancy rate on the planet.

The reason is plain. The law, -being ruled by the stupid due to democracy- by
placing a legal limit on when a mate is fit for breeding has yet again ruled out the
advantages of an evolutionary effect and created a whole new barrier set for mate
selection that incidentally only applies to those intelligent enough not to challenge
it.

In nature, being able to breed earlier and earlier with shorter and shorter
gestation periods is an advantage, just look at roaches, mice, rabbits, and ants. But
that’s a also whole other essay.

The point at hand is that by placing this external and arbitrary limit on when
sex can occur, well beyond the time when most humans are physically capable of
breeding, -thanks in America to RBGH- they have made the field ripe for mass
production of unintelligent criminals. Only the stupid are willing to risk going to
prison as a pedophile or forever being marked as a sex offender for a one night with
a beautiful fully developed and functional 15 year old.

Thus the intelligent -and ethical- ones don’t even make the attempt on girls
unless they are of legal consenting age. By the time they make it to a mate, odds
are she has already been in a long term relationship with some pedophile -sleeping
with a 15 year old in our society makes you a pedophile by definition- for over a
year, or they’ve had a string of idiots, which is actually worse as it allows them to
think that this behavior is normal. How many American girls do you know lost their
virginity at 15? You’ve probably heard of some who had “relationships” with their
first for years after, and now, of those, how many are treated like second class
citizens because they have no idea how a good man should treat them because an
evil one caught them so young?

This effect permanently damages the women and their descendants in

question because now her idea of what a “man” is and what a ‘relationship’ should
be is reduced to a series of sexual encounters and thuggish yet ‘cool’ behaviors.

This naiveté, I must add, is preyed upon by the church. They convince young
girls that their only value is to marry a man, do as he says, and pop out children.
The men in this equation being of loose morals, work hard to be a part of these
organizations to impress and acquire a mate. The church arranges an encounter,
and now the worker gets a sex doll, begins producing future customers for the
church, and the whole unit pays 10%. It’s a pretty sweet deal for everyone, except
the species, and that it’s all based on lies. The women is reduced to a household
appliance, the man is reduced to an indentured servant for the church, and the
children will be dropped into the very same meat grinder that produced their
parents, either out of resentment, ignorance, fear, or simple habit.

These flaws are intrinsic to western society’s current, monogamous, sexually

tense, structure. And without reinventing it from the ground up this particular
problem will never go away. Society in its current form is doomed because of the
short-sightedness of the ‘cool’. And the greed of religion, government, and
corporations, each of which profit from this situation, in their own way at the
expense of the people.