Um devir permanente

"Considering nature as purely static produces serious errors of apprehension. Nature “selects.” The idea of selects contains implicitly nested within it the idea of fitness. It is “fitness” that is “selected.” Fitness, roughly speaking, is the probability that a given organism will leave offspring (will propagate its genes through time). The “fit” in “fitness” is therefore the matching of organismal attribute to environmental demand. If that demand is conceptualized as static— if nature is conceptualized as eternal and unchanging— then evolution is a never-ending series of linear improvements, and fitness is something that can be ever more closely approximated across time.
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But nature, the selecting agent, is not a static selector— not in any simple sense. Nature dresses differently for each occasion. Nature varies like a musical score— and that, in part, explains why music produces its deep intimations of meaning. As the environment supporting a species transforms and changes, the features that make a given individual successful in surviving and reproducing also transform and change. Thus, the theory of natural selection does not posit creatures matching themselves ever more precisely to a template specified by the world. It is more that creatures are in a dance with nature, albeit one that is deadly."

O activismo que tanto critico nos governos é em grande medida por causa deste ponto "nature, the selecting agent, is not a static selector". Quantas vezes o mundo, o habitat muda e o apoio dos governos consiste em providenciar recursos para que as organizações aguentem até que o mundo volte ao que era... só que ele não volta ao que era. O que era, o que é, nunca é um destino, mas um devir permanente. Assim, os apoios dos governos apenas atrasam o inevitável choque com a realidade. Quanto mais tarde for esse choque mais as organizações estarão desfasadas da realidade e, por isso, menos hipóteses terão de recuperar uma vida autónoma.

Trechos retirados de "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" de  Jordan B. Peterson.