Let's elaborate on some of the points we made last week.
It appears that the elite have been shaping the socioeconomic environment in such a way that it preferentially couples with their own basic personality type to ensure their continued dominance, meanwhile adapting themselves ever more perfectly to the system they are helping to create. At first, this sounds like a brilliant self-promotional strategy, but it is far too obvious and far too easy, at least for morally uninhibited people. As soon as human utility was universally abstracted as "money" in order to lubricate economic transactions - a perfectly obvious move that didn't require anything like genius, at least by modern standards - there arose a powerful bias toward just the kind of system we now have, complete with all of its perennial ills.
But while the sheer ease and obviousness of this strategy would seem to give those able to use it without inhibition a natural advantage or evolutionary edge, this is largely illusory. It is illusory because the extreme social imbalance that it inevitably creates between the haves and have-nots renders society unstable and thus promotes its eventual collapse. Organisms which ultimately harm themselves by catastrophically destabilizing their environments are not "fit", but unfit. For example, consider a pathogenic organism with 100% infection and kill rates, including its direct biological activity and various cascade effects. In the large, its biological fitness is null; in completely destroying its supply of potential hosts, it completely destroys its own ability to reproduce. A pathogenic organism possesses biological fitness only if it is either imperfectly lethal, or imperfectly infectious and able to go dormant between outbreaks. It can never become so disruptive that its host population loses the battle for survival.
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