survival of the fittest

social darwinism

apocalypse

survivalism

is a logical incongruity in the soup of everyday life. Both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man. Anton Chekhov

is as dead as darwin because today, everyone is surviving, fit or not, as technology and medicine save even the kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well can breed more open mouth breathers.

Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers. Lenny Bruce

 has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

is the mistaken belief that fitness for survival is identical with the best exemplification of the art of life.

the survival of the fittest.' The fallacy does not consist in believing that in the struggle for existence the fittest to survive eliminate the less fit. The fact is obvious and stares us in the face. The fallacy is the belief that fitness for survival is identical with the best exemplification of the Art of Life. (whitehead 'function of reason' pdf)

is a useless tautology for anyone but social Darwinists who are interested in making a religious dogma of the ruling order.

Survival of the fittest," which Sax had always considered a useless tautology. But if social Darwinists were taking over, then maybe the concept gained importance, as a religious dogma of the ruling order....

survival of the fittest, n.All

survival of the fittest