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Individual evolution versus societal revolution

by Thinkocrates

Created on: April 02, 2010

The individual does not evolve at the same rate inside as the outside influences around oneself.  The individual becomes mechanical, trying to think in unison with ones given environment.  However, the individuals evolvement is hindered to the point they are unable to function within the acceptable parameters of said given environment, thus in survival mode, revert to a methodology which has kept one alive during the evolutionary process. 

The evolutionary shortfall is no fault of the individual, rather a systematic progression that demands too much from an individual whom has been unable to peak to the crest in previous lifetimes, thus repeating a cycle of failures set out before the individual.  For the individual is incapable of the same expected level of reaching a revolution of societal proportions attained by his fellow citizen for the given tenure of time.  As society progresses, the level demanded from the individual increases in order to meet the mean level of societal standards.  However, the individual in question may not have evolved intelligently within the reasons to understand the new parameters in which to comply based on a baseline norms. 

How can one be held responsible for societal changes evolving, when the individual was not involved or on the same plane of existence of change and therefore be expected to evolve with the change?  Changes are made as a group; however hold the individual accountable and responsible for acclimating to the revolving changes within acceptable societal standards. Therefore, an individual having been hindered by individual evolution falls even further behind revolutionary changes being the individual has not been acclimated to the changes, thus a world is seen revolting to a non-evolving individual.  It is here the individual reverts back to a system of survivability passed down through his genetic makeup. 

The basic underlying qualities that have kept the individual genetic make-up alive, are now called upon again as the new society threatens the individual to extinction.  Thus, in a sense society causes a individual to revert back to Neanderthal-like qualities in order for the individual to continue on in the evolutionary capacity and survivability.  The cycle of societal revolution is pitted against the individuals evolution, thus a cycle is created and cannot be broken until the extinction of the individual or the revolution of the society has again revolved to include the individual within its survivability.

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