The Great Motor

So-called Western Civilization's great rational project has a fundamental flaw: knowledge became so fragmented that it's easy to lose the grasp of a wholeness. Levels of analysis are mistaken for independent levels of reality.

Social sciences or History should not be dissociated from biology, for example, since human societies are composed of human organisms, and it is the aim of this text to propose a relation between them and extrapolate from there.

One tenet of Karl Marx's theory is historical materialism, the concept that History progresses by dialectical oppositions in a sort of deterministic mechanism that, according to him, would lead to a final communist stage. When one thinks that human affairs depend on contingent acts of free will, that proposition seems absurd, since "one cannot predict the future", but if we see the whole trajectory of our species (and all species) as a big biological mechanism, it ceases to be so.

Imagine yourself raised up in the stratosphere, observing human behaviors like building towers or raiding a neighboring land. It is just like one of those computer games of simulated civilizations. Our actual world also unfolds as a "simulation", meaning we act out what is embedded in our genes all along. Human behavior might perhaps be deterministic, only our "mental dimension" having some degree of freedom, but that is beside the current point.

If we consider that in all complex (eukariotic) life matrilineal genetics are inscribed basically in every cell, it is tempting to view the power house of that biological/historical mechanism in the structure called mitochondrion, that not only carries genetic information, but "generates" energy for the cell.

If we look back at our societies, patriarchy, controlling of women and reproduction, has always been fundamental for a system of accumulation. Not only questions of inheritance and legitimacy apply here, but "good (matrilineal) genetics" was always the gate to good opportunities, either by favoritism or racist exclusion. Controlling the uterus was the key to generational accumulation.
 
The problem with that genetic selection is that, as it happens with pedigree dogs, endogamic mating eventually leads to degenerated genetics. It seems the forty-fifth president of the Empire dedicates himself to prove only that, not unlike Andersen's king. It is a medical fact at least that white people are more prone to systemic disease.

As that process progresses, it is almost safe to assume that not only the genetics of the great accumulators degenerate, but also that the whole Ponzi scheme of capitalist accumulation will be revealed and discredited. The point where wealth is most concentrated is likely to be the point when capitalism starts to collapse. That development depends on dismantling a set of mystifications by which the powerful keep the powerless in awe. The system needs that people live in fear, so they can exploit that fear. Monotheist faith plays a big part, but media and academia do their job of making the simple seem complicated. When we say the phrase "to earn a living", we imply that life is not a right, but a privilege, so one must feed his vital energy into the Ponzi scheme in trade of bread crumbs and shut up.

Not only political struggle is needed. A philosophical framework must emerge that takes into account new scientific developments towards the aforementioned wholeness of perception. It might seem a towering task, but in fact it all comes down to eliminating the legacy of a "civilization" that needs to negate the biological process for selfish reasons, and reconciliate with our animality. This time having good rational explanations for all observable phenomena, and applying knowledge for life and not for profit. It could be a "final stage" of development for human society indeed.