BEHAR: What about these people who are overpopulating- the Gosselins, the octo-moms- these people who have been vitro with hundreds of things in there- you know what I mean? What’s up with that? … FISHER: Well, I think it’s as if- I mean, now, people regard that as littering, and- you know, as if we’ve got too many people on this planet to begin with. … SHUKERT: I was thinking how much greener it is to not have kids. That he feels he can have steaks and things because he doesn’t have kids. It’s like I can drive a Hummer. I don’t have a kid. -Newsbusters
I have always found the twisted logic of the evolutionist astounding —evolution is all about the survival of the species, but we’ve evolved to the point of realizing that the survival of our species isn’t important. Of course, she gives away the game in the last sentence: “I can drive a Hummer, I don’t have a kid!”
This is the real root of modern thinking —selfishness. I once had a teacher tell me that if you find any story in the Scriptures unaccountable, put Christ —or forgiveness, or God’s character— in the middle of it, and it will make sense. I can turn this around, as well in the modern world to say:
If you find any line of reasoning strange, put selfishness in the middle of it, and it’ll probably make much more sense.
Not having kids? Well, it’s good for the environment (and for my pocketbook, and my alone time, and my sanity, wink wink).
Abortion on demand? It’s liberates women (and means I don’t have to put up with a kid I don’t want to raise, and I also don’t have to put up with the messy emotional attachments that go along with putting a child up for adoption, wink wink).
Sending my kids to public schools? Well, mine are “good enough,”and I pay for it anyway, and I don’t think I could teach my children what professional teachers can (and it’s sooo convenient —the school bus picks them up and drops them off— so I have more “alone time” —wink wink).
“Social justice?” I know I could give my money myself, but it’s society’s job to take care of the poor (and it saves me the messy problem of actually interacting with the poor, and all those people I just don’t like to be around, and it let’s me feel like I’m doing something while digging into someone else’s pocket rather than mine… wink wink).
Yes, we really have come to the point where selfishness dominates our world to this degree. I would say this is a twisted moral system, but really —is it? In the Darwinian world, there are no moral absolutes. So perhaps it is the point of evolution to come to a “final generation,” a generation that enjoys driving their Hummers while aging off and dying. Maybe the point of evolution, all along, has been to give one final generation everything they could ever possibly want, on the backs of hundreds or thousands of generations before them. But if so, aren’t I right to ask —is this really all there is to life?
Does it really all come down to, “if it makes me feel good, I’ll do it?”
And, if so, why must we disguise it in “oh so caring” words and “caring by the photo-op?”
Or is even Darwinism, and the entire modern moral fabric, really supported by our desire to be selfish? Isn’t Evolution, as a social movement, really nothing more than an attempt to explain “good” in the context of selfishness?
So when you see something that doesn’t make sense, try and put selfishness in the middle. Humans are not always motivated by selfishness, but we are to a larger degree than we would like to admit.
