Idea Description

The hypothesis is that people are less and less driven by genetic proliferation and preservation as commonly assumed and are increasingly motivated by less obvious but more general drive for the proliferation and continuity of leading values. 

 Thus, people simply want to continue, perpetuate and preserve, as well as spread and multiply whatever becomes important or significant for them, whether these are genes, lives, ideas, monuments, personal fame, life style, nations, ideologies, ethnicities, institutions, environment or art. 

Accordingly, genetic preservation and multiplication is viewed as only one specific case/part of a wider and more diversified drive to pursue certain sameness and continuity across space and time which we explore under another topic of conversation. Moreover, as part of this broader drive, the propensity for genetic proliferation and perpetuation seems to be diminishing in importance for humans and is being increasingly replaced by other values and aims, a process which only accelerates and emphasizes the human transformation to “general perpetuation”. 

Similar to the genetic code, a memory of an emperor, an empire, a religion, an idea, or an institution could all be viewed as intangible constellations, as patterns, or as codes that we all try to duplicate over space and time. Accordingly, we can say that people increasingly supplement or replace their preservation and proliferation of the genetic code with various other architectural, intellectual, visual, organizational, social, spiritual, or political codes.