Darwin never said the strongest survive. “Survival of the fittest” wasn’t even his phrase — the philosopher Herbert Spencer coined it, & Darwin only borrowed it in a later edition. “Fittest” never meant fiercest, richest, or most dominant. It meant best fit... open.substack.com/pub/shadowso...
Fitness Is Not a Fist: The Misreading at the Root of Our Endless WarsShadows of Empire — Welcome to our new series on where late-stage capitalism is taking us and what it’s costing.open.substack.com