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Is natural selection our real-life archenemy?
Your happiness may depend upon the answer.
What if we had a real-life archenemy? Wouldn’t that be cool?
Just like the Joker keeps Batman vigilant and motivated to protect Gotham, what if our archenemy could give us a reason to fight for a life worth living?
But, hold on a minute, what am I talking about? There is no super-villain out there threatening our livelihood.
Right?
In his book, Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright lays out a persuasive argument for how and why we are deluded into seeing a skewed and often wrong perspective of the world.
Who is the mastermind behind this evil plot?
Well, asking “what” not “who” might be more appropriate because, according to Wright, natural selection is to blame.
Our archenemy
What if our archenemy, rather than a living, conscious actor in our lives, is instead a natural process that has been at work on our minds for millions of years?
What if this enemy has subtly manipulated our thoughts and emotions to make us nearly blind to its influence and its goal for us?
What if, as a result, our lives are not quite what they seem? What if we are all deceived into living…
