Darwin’s Theory of Evolution has been knee capped by the rise in Western countries, especially the U.S., Japan and England, by the advent of ‘Ubernerdism’.
His theory, which has in modern times been boiled down to ‘only the strong survive’ by countless macho movies and manly novels, has recently been taken over in the evolutionary quest by Ubernerdism- the development of a subculture of human that rejects the pure physical aspects of life and concentrates its energies on the mind and all things intellectual and mental and nerdy.
In the early to late parts of the 20th century the idea of the ideal human, always male, was the superman type- physically muscular with excellent health and a rigorous constitution. This emphasis was displayed in such sports as boxing, wrestling and football especially. Having broad shoulders, strong, bulging arm and leg muscles and a strong face was a core to the ideal look of modern man. Women were confined to having a shapely figure and lovely facial features. Muscles were out for them. The cartoon Superman came to embody this highest stage of 1900’s ideal man.
Then, a very strange change came about with the modern age starting about the 1930’s and blossoming in the 1950’s. The mental man began to become dominant. A new, brainiac type of male began to have dominance in sneaky ways. As life became more dependent on modern devices, on electricity and machines the ‘smart man’ became dominant.
Darwinism had no explanation for this. It did not fit the image. This modern, more mentally and intellectually inclined type of being had a weekend body from lack of use and a less physically aggressive type of stance towards life and his fellow humans. In other words nerds were becoming the next step in evolution.
This new ‘nerdism’ strangely became dominant, especially when the computer age started. Nerds began to become the Big Chiefs in America, Bill Gates with Microsoft being the new version of the Dominant Male in society. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple computers, soon surpassed him with a sleeker, more refined nerdism. Nowadays you have any number of men, and a growing number of women, who are the harbingers of their sex in the field of modern nerdism. One could say that in today’s world, Elon Musk could be the best example of the dominant nerd, but he could also be the beginning of its backslide too.
It has been observed that women too have had a drastic change in the same time period of evolution. Whereas many of the men have become less athletic, many women have become more Amazonian.
With the advent of women’s basketball, baseball and even football they have tended to interrupt the evolutionary chain by becoming more sporty, muscular and aggressive. Gone are the days of the poor, weak female. The ideals are no longer to be a pretty flower waiting to be plucked, instead they are a cactus ready and able to repel any danger.
This shift in attitude has had a seismic influence on western societies. Less people have been getting married or finding mates. Today, quite often, individuals are making mates of the same sex, which throws the evolutionary scale off its balance. Also Amazonian women are not attracted to nerdy men, further decreasing the birth rate. Because of these new factors in life on earth, scientists fear these trends may indicate a future demise of mankind due to low birth rates. That would put the whole question of evolution on a back burner.
Concerned by this, such billionaire leaders such as Elon Musk have proposed that in the future only they, the ubermensches with the money to get anything done, should be the only ones to be making babies. Actually, it appears that Elon is already working on that problem by having numerous birth things by numerous women. Other rich individuals who also seem to be contributing to this cause with mucho gusto and mucho offspring of their own are Mick Jagger, Orthodox Mormons (a BIG contributor), Nick Cannon (his last name is thereby symbolic….), Clint Eastwood, Eddie Murphy, Rod Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Glen Campbell have all donated plenty of bodily juices to the cause, although it appears that only Elon Musk is really contributing anything to the advance of mankind, and is especially questionable considering his latest antics. Meanwhile Clint Eastwood might have created a whole new sub-species on his own that harkens back to the pre-1930’s male. God forbid what Ozzy Osborne had begotten……..
Nadya Sulemon gets a special credit on this count because, as the ‘Octomom” she had eight kids all at once due to an overambitious doctor who gave her fertility medicine. Add to that the other 6 kids she had before them. She is placed in a very special category. It is not an envious one. And not a particularly smart one.
The rise in ubernerdism has been well documented in the TV series ‘The Big Bang Theory’ which many have mistaken for a comedy, when actually it was a really long running documentary. The characters were all actually real life people and Sheldon really did win the Nobel Prize in the last episode. Or so I have been told by People Magazine.
Darwin in his theory states that ‘Over many generations, the accumulation of favorable traits leads to changes in the characteristics of populations, and eventually, the emergence of new species.’ Looking at many in our populations around the world, it can be noted that the accumulation of unfavorable traits has also led to changes in the characteristics of populations. Americans, the British and Chinese lead the way into poor physical conditions and unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise. Soon we will descend into a physical state where mobility will be reduced to slug-like movements where we do not even attempt to rise against the downward pull of gravity. Television, telephones and computers will become our only contact with the outside world.
It remains to be seen whether Ubernerdism is a true evolutionary trait or whether it is a temporary side show Nature produced to keep itself entertained while the world turned onwards. Maybe it is good we won’t be there to see it…..