Has humanity stopped evolving?

How much have we evolved as a species, how far have we actually come in terms of evolution. People say being broad-minded in this day of age is somehow crucial to our existence & what is our existence really? How are we different from every other person, we like to think that we’re different, are we? Our lives controlled by everything that is fake.! Our mentors telling us how we should be leading our lives? Telling us what brand of shoes, clothes we should be buying, what car we should get? What food we should eat? What brand of toilet we should be taking a dump on? Who are these mentors of ours? Why do we know more about an “X” celebrity life than that of ours? Are our lives are our own? We’d like to think so! & yet all that can be seen around the world are people with superficial existence of an empty shell which keeps repeating the same dumb shit everyday. Every person falling in line with the other, being the sheep they choose to be with the same scripted life.INDIVIDUALITY IS DEAD...! So how have we Evolved?

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Evolution simply fits varieties of a type to the environment through differential survival. It doesn't have an intrinsic direction. Very broadly speaking if being one of the herd means that your genes prosper and being an individual means that they don't then carriers of the herd genes will breed more than carriers of the individual genes.

Bacteria and viruses evolve much faster than we do. Humans haven't changed substantially since the emergence of anatomically modern humans thirty thousand years ago (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens#Anatomical_modernity and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity).

But I agree with your criticism of much of modern life.