Cultural Evolution and Its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

by Robert N Watson and Robert N. Watson

People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself - brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures - may seize control of our world and destroy what's uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems - especially those whose last names are "ism" - are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, they've blindly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367476568
• ISBN13: 9780367476564
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages