Darwin Was Wrong. This Could Change How We See Each Other & Do Business.

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Action movies teach us one of the greatest lies that science has perpetuated: People are naturally violent beings. There are a host of other values that emerge scene-after-scene, but this is one of the greatest scientific fallacies alive today.

Darwin was wrong. He misunderstood one fundamental aspect of how humans interact with their environment - that of correlation. He employed correlation all throughout his investigations, that was his very own major blindside.

The hard pill to swallow is the archaic, evolutionary belief that we are somehow hardwired toward conflict.

This is absolutely not true. It is very important to remember, that any belief that exists out in the world, is one that first existed within culture. Meaning, that anything that we have accepted and endorsed as the status quo, is nothing more than simply someone’s belief that people should act a certain way.

This is not to undermine science, on the contrary, it is to expose the reality, that beliefs, values, ?and even behaviors are first born in culture– not in science.

Science, like any other investigative tool, is equally influenced by its environment. Science is not somewhere outside of the environment. It like everything else, investigations are produced, reinforced, and ideologically confined to the culture from which they spring.

I get it. That’s not a very popular opinion.

HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS OUR VERY FICKLE FRIEND.

But, think about it. Sociologically speaking, every single thing that we value is predicated on the notion that we think it is normal to accept as true. [This is not to undermine science, research, or data. It is to expose the way in which we have come to rely on science as the only way to understand human behavior.]

Social sciences can only take us so far. I’m saying this, as a trained social scientist.

The greatest confirmation bias is the one that we can’t see.

Let me be extremely contradictory and ironic by sharing research from Neuroscience. It is in Neuroscience , that we find that our perception of anything that we see, taste, touch, and hear is extremely limited [It’s referred to as The Law of Closure]. Perception is actively filling in blanks within the world around us. If there’s anything that we are hardwired to do—it’s to be curious. It’s to not submit to the banal attraction of the status quo, which claims what we see is what we get.

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