“My parents couldn’t give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I’ve definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.” – Ashton Kutcher

No, thank you Ashton Kutcher! We tend to give our genes a lot of credit. But should we? Let’s moralize this…

Genetic Life-cycle

Your genes are selfish – they only want to make copies of themselves. To every gene within you, you are nothing more an organic host, one host in a long chain of hosts. When you are young your genes are taking better care of you in order to help you reach an age of maturity so that you can reproduce and keep on sharing them down the line. Your protection is paramount too their survival. For early growth, your genes will work harder as a collective unit in order to grow you for their own short term and long term reproductive purposes. As they grow older they tend to isolate themselves more and more.

The longer you live past the age of reproductive maturity the more your genes assume that you as an organic host will die – and they anticipate it more with every day that passes. So don’t give them too much credit Mr. Kutcher; Don’t get punk’d.

Biologically speaking the more risk involved in the host organisms life, the quicker it’s genes essentially give up on them. Research has shown that reducing these risks in an organism, doesn’t encourage the genes to make them alter their nature. A human living with higher risk factors of death, versus one that’s not, will not change a thing. Your genes are brutally realistic and can’t be rationalized with.

Essentially, the longer you live, the more your genes get bored with you and assume more and more that you are going to die any day now…so what’s the point of going on? They allow more mutations, get lazy and eventually give up on you. Then you die. (Unless you die in another way before then)

Of course I’m over simplifying this complex process, but figuratively that’s what happens.

Human Development Life-cycle

So if this is what’s going on within us on a genetic level, how does this project, manifest and mimic in our human development?

The younger we are, the more important our protection is. We need older people to instinctively make sure they protect us so we can survive and grow. Usually the people with the most vested interest in us are the ones that created us. Is this why people who have at least one child usually live longer?? Do the genes within a parent work harder to keep them healthy in order to protect the genetic offspring? Maybe. Maybe not.

As we grow as children we instinctively want to be in a collective. We know that being together gives us stability, stimuli and comfort. We don’t care about gender, race, language, we just enjoy each other in the most primal and basic ways.

As our brains further develop we want to learn, and surprisingly we can learn faster then at any other point in our life. We instinctively understand that we must mature and have an intense desire to always be older.

Once we reach puberty and have the ability to finally fulfill our genetic purpose then we enter the selective phase. What do we like? Who are we attracted to? What do we believe? Our hormones kick in and drive us to question all prior authority in our life – shed the old – and find people who want to “create” with us.

As we continue to age we isolate ourselves more and more into identification check boxes. Religion. Political views. Economic status. Sexual identification. Likes. Wants. Needs. We trust less. We worry more.

Is this all only a mirror of what goes on within us – genetically speaking?

What about humanity as a whole? Did you know that world population tripled in the 20th century. Yes. Tripled!

The United States had a “Baby Boomer” generation (1946-1964). In 2012 those baby boomers made up to 25% of the total US population. This generation has created a dramatic shift in the composition of the US.

Is it any surprise then that the “Free Love” movement of the 60’s and 70’s has been dramatically replaced by the isolationist sentiment that we see in US society today? Remember, these are the same people 50 years later. One might deduce that the micro genetic life-cycle within us is so imperative that it plays out on a macro scale within our humanity and society.

The 2016 the US was 157th in a list of 228 countries with the lowest percentage of population aged 15 or under. Niger – 1st Uganda -2nd

Mali – 3rd

Malawi – 4th

Zambia – 5th

…

France – 158th

UK – 168th

China – 176th

Russia – 177th

Canada – 196th

Germany – 224th

From this list, what can we predict in the next 10-20 years?

Understanding Our Nature (Series)

January 1 – 2018

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