> > So, it is not the survival of the fittest any more!? Fascinating!!!
>
> Of course it's not "survival of the fittest" any more..... in most parts of the
> world it hasn't been since the late Upper Paleolithic or thereabouts.

So now is it the survival of the weak!? LOL

> Our average brain size has decreased.

I don't play by the averages!

> Looking around me, I can't help suspect that our psychological stability has decreased.

You mean social "degeneration"! That would not surprise me since all civilizations ultimately just collapse and become extinct...

> The genetic load (frequency of deleterious alleles) on our species has increased,
> due to the existance of "society" and "technology" allowing the survival of
> Darwinian "unfit" organisms.

That, of course, makes no sense at all!

Being fit to survive is always a relative term...It is more like adapting quickly to changes and surviving...

> People that would have died young a few thousand years ago are now surviving &
> reproducing instead.

So, what is your latest theory of survival in the 21st century!? LOL

> Hell, we provide welfare & disability benefits to highly unfit individuals....
> who then use this leisure & guaranteed meal ticket to reproduce at a
> disproportionately high level.... while world class athletes & scientists
> & the like are often "too busy" to reproduce at all, or at anything other than a
> disproportionately low level.

That is exactly how and why all societies always degenerate! All it takes is one or two healthy couples (male-female) to maintain any species...

> Read the papers..... alcoholics get liver transplants, paid for by public funds or
> absorbed by hospitals & passed on to paying patients. Indigents use emergency room
> services as first aid ("doctor, I have a sore throat" "or a sore back"), again, cost
> paid by the more productive members of society (who often "can't afford" to have
> as many kids as the indigents do!).

I don't have to read it since I am already fully aware that all civilizations eventually collapse and die. Note that NONE that is 100% of them has survived...

> Careless idiots who lose legs trying to hop trains get free medical treatment & public
> assistance. Idiots who start wildfires (by careless "accident", or trying to signal
> help after being lost for a few hours) that burn tens of thousands of acres of land.....
> including Old Growth forest!....and destroy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
> houses and property..... and kill other people..... who are "punished" with a slap on
> the wrist jail sentance & fines that do nothing to recoup even a fraction of damages.
> Runaway brides who cost $60,000+ in search fees.... which they don't repay..... and
> are then given million dollar book deals.

Welcome to common reality...

> Nope, unless we get hit with a MAJOR pandemic, asteroid strike, WWIII, or
> societal/industrial collapese, we aren't going to see much "natural selection"
> at work any time soon.

Well, IMHO I don't think that you fully understand what natural selection is! All prior societies and all prior civilizations have all collapsed and died and become extinct, so there is nothing new about this natural reality...

> Till then, it's "survival of the "fit enought" and the "most parasitic".... with the
> advantage going to the most parasitic. Kenuchelover-the-cynic.

Well, if these millions or even billions of beings cannot quickly adapt to the Earth changes, they will become extinct...

-wirelessguru1