a reply to:
fireslinger
Blue Dawn has to do with the
Flynn Effect and
epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can
cause changes that affect the way your genes work. See, genetics is defined by external forces, usually environmental ones. But that changes when a
species (yours) acquires technology. Technology becomes a new external force acting on your development and, together with environmental factors, has
an impact on your genes and change the way they work.
Unlike DNA mutation, epigenetic changes do not alter the underlying DNA sequence. All they affect is which genes are turned on or off, or how active
they are. Other species are not affected as they have no technology or, if you prefer, are not primary consumers of technology. In a highly
technologized world, technology acts as a relevant epigenetic factor. Obviously, this is something Mr. Darwin could not anticipate.
Now, the overall increase in stupidity (that is, the realization that the IQ of the population is declining dramatically), the increase in behavioral
disorders (TDHA, OCD, autism, psychosis, sleep disorders, suicidal tendencies, to mention just a few), and the environmental changes are all sculpting
your genome. Your species is subjected to a brutal stress that has profound evolutionary consequences.
It is no coincidence that violence and aggressiveness are on the rise, nor that self-destructive behaviors are becoming more widespread. It is no
coincidence that the level of ignorance is, today, much higher than one would expect. And it is no coincidence that these curves correlate with
technological advances, most of which are useless.
Blue Dawn refers to the effect of technology on epigenetics and owes its name to the bluish color of the electronic devices that your species
uses on a massive scale. This is fully expected. Going from living in caves to living in technified megacities in just a few millennia has its cost. I
can imagine one must get a stupid look on her face when one realizes that the technology that made you the dominant species is exactly the same
technology that will turn you into an imbecilic monkey.
It is the same face of the last Neanderthal when he realized that not knowing how to make tools was his undoing. A dilemma, you see.