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In Nature We Find Not Only That Which Is Expedient, But Also Everything Which Is Not So Inexpedient As To Endanger The Existence Of The Species.

The Rushed Existence Into Which Industrialized, Commercialized Man Has Precipitated Himself Is Actually A Good Example Of An Inexpedient Development Caused Entirely By Competition Between Members Of The Same Species. Human Beings Of Today Are Attacked By So-called Manager Diseases, High Blood Pressure, Renal Atrophy, Gastric Ulcers, And Torturing Neuroses: They Succumb To Barbarism Because They Have No More Time For Cultural Interests.

Natural Selection Does Not Give Any Preference At All To Anything That, In The Long Run, Could Be Advantageous For The Species But Blindly Rewards Everything That, Momentarily, Affords Greater Procreative Success.

Most Of The Vices And Mortal Sins Condemned Today Correspond To Inclinations That Were Purely Adaptive Or At Least Harmless In Primitive Man

The Competition Between Human Beings Destroys With Cold And Diabolic Brutality... Under The Pressure Of This Competitive Fury We Have Not Only Forgotten What Is Useful To Humanity As A Whole, But Even That Which Is Good And Advantageous To The Individual. [...] One Asks, Which Is More Damaging To Modern Humanity: The Thirst For Money Or Consuming Haste... In Either Case, Fear Plays A Very Important Role: The Fear Of Being Overtaken By One's Competitors, The Fear Of Becoming Poor, The Fear Of Making Wrong Decisions Or The Fear Of Not Being Up To Snuff...