Male & Female both opposites

[SethRose (imported)]

I can't say I've ever before shared your fascination, Eunuchist, but I have now. I've spent this morning reading up on eusociality. I am particularly impressed by kin selection. This is some of the most revealing information I've ever encountered. I feel as though a huge veil I didn't even know I was wearing has been lifted from my eyes. My mind races with all of the wonder here. How much would this information shape and change the nature of our philosophy and direction of our social sciences? Would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have had insights to evoke a greater kinship between Americans of all ethnicities? What would be different in Nietzsche's writing if he had known? This last will vex me endlessly, I am certain.

This meshes well with my own observations on homosexuality in modern cultures versus historical norms. Much of the current, and thankfully declining, discussion on homosexuality today can be dismissed as problems stemming from asserting personal rights against fundamentalist moral authority. It became necessary to identify as homosexual to push for a change in cultural values and perceptions. Unfortunately homosexuality became an identification rather than a behavior, which confuses the issue and has its own set of complications. I'm as guilty of this as Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass. Now I see in kin selection a natural precursor to the behavior of homosexuality, which brings us back to the original discussion of this thread on identity.

As we have evolved into vastly more complicated creatures, we have also evolved vastly more complicated societies. We push and push against nature and evolution on a daily basis in our arrogant pursuits; which is by necessity how nature and evolution have shaped us to behave. We are now greater than natural selection through our medicine and compassion, but that doesn't mean we are immune to it yet. We find ourselves at a cross-road of human evolution where we have not fully taken it upon ourselves to assume complete authority in this manner, and so we have nature introducing "abnormalities" to us, which nature feels are necessities for us. There is a crisis of resources and lack of population control in our world. China recently released an assertion that by 2050, if the population is not controlled, there will be so many people it will take 2 Earths to provide the resources necessary to sustain us all. For now, though, we are still in evolution's embrace and we are under her guidance as much as our own. She provides us alternatives to this calamity in the form of many different types of behavior that we may engage in instead of brainlessly breeding ourselves into famine.

Those that find themselves wishing to engage in non-breeding activities that insist on identifying with an English word should more appropriately identify with "hero" than "gay" or "eunuch".

(Note all uses of Nature as a "She" and other anthropomorphism are for brevity, and are not meant to imply any extra-corporeal intelligence at play. The feminine pronoun refers to rather the delicate dance that nature has been up to for the last 16 Billion years, which would require Shakespearean sonnets to accurately express and are beyond the scope of this post.)