The Oedipus Paradox
The Legacy of Social Darwinism

 

 


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The Oedipus Paradox

    

     
 

 One of the results of our new analysis of history and evolution has been the discovery of the problems with the legacy of theories applied to the analysis of culture. And Darwinism is one of the principal offenders here with its incorrect application of theory to an ambiguous domain said to be that of evolution but also in an ambiguity of definition sliding into an ideology of culture. It is no accident that Darwinism generated the confusions of Social Darwinism, and our eonic model shows immediately why this happens, and why we can't absolve Darwinists from this charge. We note the so-called Oedipus Paradox that arises in false applications of causality to historical situations, and the failure to properly harmonize the idea of evolution in relation to history. The problem arises from the misuse of universal generalizations that look like laws and thus extend their claims from the past to the future without taking into account the fact that the theory itself is an historical variable that interacts with its own future, generating a contradiction. This is the plight of the theory of natural selection as its implications, mostly false, condition the action of those who adopt the theory as a universal generalization about evolution. The result is the misapplication of theory to the potential future of action, when in fact no such implication exists at all. Our model thus moves beyond the fallacy of theories to show a way to apply the idea of evolution to the past and future without their colliding with that future, and without introducing false theoretical generalizations where they don't belong. 

 

 

 

 
     

   

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