Good interview. The commonly used references to the Darwinian "survival of the fittest" theory are wrong! The term – a phrase actually coined not by Darwin but by Herbert Spencer in The Economist - was hijacked by Victorian elites in Britain and their focus on the “survival of the fittest” was a justification for their privilege . The error of these early “social Darwinists” was focusing on competition – whereas all complex systems, including human societies and organizations, keep competition in balance with cooperation in their many functional levels.... http://www.economist.com/no...
On Oct 19, 2013 SLDI wrote:
Good interview. The commonly used references to the Darwinian "survival of the fittest" theory are wrong! The term – a phrase actually coined not by Darwin but by Herbert Spencer in The Economist - was hijacked by Victorian elites in Britain and their focus on the “survival of the fittest” was a justification for their privilege . The error of these early “social Darwinists” was
focusing on competition – whereas all complex systems, including human societies and organizations, keep competition in balance with cooperation in their many functional levels.... http://www.economist.com/no...