Simon Lennon

The End of Natural Selection Simon Lennon

Natural selection is over. What the author calls unnatural selection is human beings picking who'll prosper (materially, at any rate) and who else will procreate, when we do so with our natures corrupted, desires unnatural, and instincts denied. Western individualism is unnatural. The author, a corporate lawyer, draws upon his and other people's experiences to illustrate that, without senses of community and nation, Western employer demands for employees completely committed to work means we either neglect our families or dispense with them altogether. If we really believed in diversity, we'd facilitate motherhood and fatherhood among our executives and rising employees.