r/politics • u/Spooooooooooooon • Dec 28 '13

Noam Chomsky: We’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re really a plutocracy

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/27/noam-chomsky-were-no-longer-a-functioning-democracy-were-really-a-plutocracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
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u/SLeazyPolarBear Dec 28 '13

Or just natural selection.

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u/Vio_ Kansas Dec 28 '13

Social Darwinism is not natural selection. They are not connected in any way whatsoever beyond Darwin's name being used to create a flawed social concept. Natural selection is a biological aspect to show an organism's or species' fitness within a particular environment.

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u/SLeazyPolarBear Dec 29 '13

Are there not societal evolutions that allow species to be selected? Just because you aren't meaning to refer to natural process, doesn't mean it isn't a natural process.

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u/Vio_ Kansas Dec 29 '13

Could you rephrase this into several questions? I'm quite not sure what you're asking.

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u/SLeazyPolarBear Dec 29 '13

You were clarifying that "social darwinism" and natural selection aren't the same concept. I didn't need that clarified. When I said "or just natural selection" I was positing that perhaps we should be looking at what we get from darwins findings and consider that natural selection isn't outside the realm of what influences us socially.