The natural selection and the Darwinian theory of evolutions drive the main thesis and subtopics of the writings of Richard Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene” published by Oxford University Press last 1989 proves that the narratives of the text serve as a reference to other later publications like the famous books of Steve Pinker. Personally, I insist to my self later to buy the book when I read the books of Pinker and as Professor Pinker always quoted the writings of Richard Dawkins from his book The Selfish Gene. The great theoretical work of Darwin and Mendel inspire many academic writers like R.A. Fisher, W.D. Hamilton, G.C. Williams, and J. Maynard Smith. The flow of discussion of the book of Richard Dawkins connects the social theory on natural selection. From the catching Thesis of his book “The Selfish Gene” drives the cravings for many academic readers around the world to read and know the academic insights of Richard Dawkins. Its natural social theory reflects the civilization of men and the existence of the world.
The book further covers the natural behavior of the gene itself when we are created inside the womb of our mothers. But then again the thesis projects a captivating sound bite to the readers connected with the discipline of social sciences field of study. The word “SELFISH” from the thesis connects the many political and economic events of our world from then and now. Selfish of power and money is the real deal of our world politics today. The writings of Graham Allison from my previous blog article “PACIFIC and the GAME OF LOANS: “DESPACITO” Towards Communist China’s Power Grab” projects the natural social theory of Darwin covering the vital topics of Gene’s natural behavior and the selfish gene itself. Graham Allison connects the behavior of humans to the political events of the centuries from the war between Athens and Greece will resemble the political events in the Suez Canal, Nile River during the time of Caesar and Cleopatra, Ukraine and Russian, and the Pacific Rim. All of these world important events including the political case of the Iraq war and the German war during world war 2 is a concrete example that selfish nature of humans is in the genetic behavior of every one of us.
But connecting these conflicting ideas with love argues many philosophical angles as to when humans act in love or in jealousy. Is love actually jealousy in actual human nature? On the contrary human insecurities starts when jealousy starts to flair-up not in the heart but in the mind of the humans. Human psychological behavior that connects with our genetic behavior will prove that jealousy will create aggression in the book of Richard Dawkins but in my own intuition it will give more not only aggression but war and global conflict both national and international from the writings of Graham Allison. Since greediness and jealousy is part of the fruit of our natural selfish gene, is it possible that we can justify the wrongdoings of the little dragon in the Pacific that by being greedy the little dragon is even submitting national and international contracts towards communist China ignoring the debt consequences of the country in the long-run? Upon reading the book of Dawkins you can either justify or ponder the political egos of the little dragon in the Pacific.
On the contrary many theorists of today from the field of economics and other social science academic discipline, they are creating theory used in public governance and modern economics that if you compare and contrast the parallelism of the theories given it will relate to the natural theory of the Selfish Gene concept. A good example of a theory that we can use to show that even business and public governance of today are still subject to the concepts of our very own Selfish Gene. G.R. Price and G.A. Parker are known for their theories called the Game Theory that to negotiate and to submit to your business counterparts or political enemies, for example, needs to consider the outcome. Thus, the theory calculates either to compete or to merge as partners in the business to gain peace and more business benefit. In the case of China and America, the theory of game theory can relate to the push and pull of the political pressure in the Pacific region.
As such, Game Theory is generally used in many aspects of economics and business market strategy to penetrate a new market for example. As such, is it weird to think that being selfish in nature is accepted in our society’s governance? In the case of game theory we teach the theory in school, thus indirectly we are teaching our students to be selfish? On the contradicting view, we can consider that the good values taught by our teachers and the clergy in various religions are deemed to be impractical and impossible to achieve that only the Gods has the capacity to follow and fulfill the good moral values defined in the holy scriptures of the many religions. Having said that, if the little dragon will read this paragraph it will justify her political selfishness in the Congress chambers. Just a silly thought…. How can we modify the gene of the little dragon to change her character from extreme political selfishness towards a more giving attitude. In matters of science and the survival of the race, Dawkins also discussed the example of the hawk and the dove that the nature of hawk is always to attack the dove.
When one species is by nature dominant to the other the tendency, the weak species will eventually be an extinct creature in the generation to come. Some are not only fighting for their survival against other species but also some species are surviving in their geographical location and climate. Many animals, for example, are becoming smaller in numbers due to the global warming phenomenon. Geographical change related to climate change will affect the survival of the species inside the ecosystem. Thus, the natural tendencies that genes will be selfish are but common to human survival in a given ecosystem. As such, scholars try to connect the selfish gene nature of every human in relation to natural human psychology and human behavior that in a bigger context it will create a complex behavior of the society. That is why in the subtopic of the book in chapter 5, the author focused more on the global problem of today in terms of aggression in many ways in society. Politics either micro or macro involves greatly in the concepts of the selfish gene. Specifically, the business subject that is deemed vital to the course of business studies are the subjects of business negotiations related to marketing and public relations.
Marketing of today, for example, is using the natural behavior of humans to attain customer loyalty. Mostly the value of the products is reflected from the natural needs and wants of the different segments of the market population. Politics, on the other hand, are usually observation the human tendencies to submit and achieve their trust and loyalty for every voter to give their ballot during elections for example. When one politician is not that soaring in the statistical data survey of both international and national pulse it will automatically reflect the natural behavior of a given politician that is not soothing to the adopted culture and norm of the given society. Cultures and norms are the model and molding models of what a morally right behavior in our society. But these cultural models change through times due to many determinants of society. On the contrary the concept “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back” concept is also written in the writings of Dawkins in his book. The concept is very common in the survival of many politicians today that they help each other to defeat the bigger politician.
Eva Green in Jealous Pink
Eva Green in Jealous Pink
Though they are not friends, in particular, they have one common political enemy then they have to you unite for the sake of surviving in the bigger political arena. Moreover, business products in the consumer market are competing in a capitalist market with the behavior of cannibalism in order to survive in the ever rapid technologically advanced world. But considering the moral values and ethics of law and order, is it justifiable to be greedy in terms of the market survival given to the theories of capitalism or we need to share equally what you have in accordance with the concepts of Noam Chomsky (https://avantgardebyryanf.blogspot.com/2018/01/oops-i-did-it-again-democracy-is-not.html) but when it comes to personal human relationships and marriage can we consider the values of capitalism or communism.
Many aspects of our society that a hybrid approach is applied. Thus, the economy of China is more of a hybrid practice between communism and capitalism. So, what can be the concepts of the little dragon in the Pacific? Is she following the concepts of communism or capitalism in terms of her “very selfish gene” economic negotiation and integration with China? Do we have the right as Filipinos to get jealous with our native land being exchanged with the loans given by China that as educated citizens we know that these massive loans will create a bubble and eventually create an economic bubble just like in 1997 in Asia? Is jealously moral in terms of our motherland considering our rights for our sovereignty? Or we need to share our lands according to the values written in the scriptures. Is jealousy morally right in terms of the concepts and theories of capitalism and communism? That depends upon the mind of the little dragon.
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