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Synopsis
Spiteful Mutants: Evolution, Sexuality, Politics, and Religion in the 21st Century
Every zombie movie has a terrifying underlying message. The enemy isn’t supernatural or a monster from outer space. “The enemy is . . . us!” The “undead”—mutated humans, grotesque versions of their previous selves—are destroying everything in their path, bringing about the downfall of civilization itself. Worst of all, they are contagious, forcing the few survivors left to join the hoard.
In Spiteful Mutants, Edward Dutton argues that we are experiencing a “zombie apocalypse” of our own. The critical threat to civilization is not so much enemies abroad as it is nihilistic and self-destructive tendencies within our own populations. Dutton examines the most salient social phenomena through a Darwinian lens: from BLM to QAnon; from those seeking sexual transformation to the “Incels” who don’t have sex at all; from atheists to those with a religious zeal for “social justice.” All these phenomena can best be understood as genetic results of the Industrial Revolution.
Human evolution is an ongoing process. The question of who we, as a species, will become is a matter of who is being selected for in a particular ecology. Before industrialization, child mortality was the crucible of evolution: those who were physically and mentally sick—that is, who possessed high levels of genetic mutation—rarely survived into adulthood. The Industrial Revolution, and resultant medical advances, brought about the collapse of child mortality, allowing the explosive growth of people who are highly mutated in body and mind, and who would not have otherwise survived. These mutants, walking among us, are “spiteful” in the sense that they actively affect the functioning of the group. They generate polarization and chaos, depravity and dysphoria, and even the gradual collapse of fertility. A new specter is haunting the industrialized world, the specter of Spiteful Mutants, a menace of our own making.
About The Author
Edward Dutton is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Łódź, Poland, and is a prolific researcher and commentator. He is the author of Religion and Intelligence (2014), Making Sense of Race (2020), among many other books.
<< Edward Dutton is one of the liveliest and most engaging of this new generation of academic dissidents."
—John Derbyshire
Details
Publisher : Radix (June 6, 2022)
Language: : English
Paperback : 388 pages
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59368-082-4
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59368-083-1
Hardback price: $34.99
Paperback price: $24.99
Item Weight : 1 lbs.
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches