Misapplied Science

When naturalist/natural scientist Charles Darwin
inferred the theory of evolution from his observations
of the animal specimens he collected on his journeys
he was being entirely logical about what he observed,
and postulated about the scale of the planet's history.

But he was less logical about the human hierarchies
created by Adam Smith's theories about markets,
and the migrations of financial and political capital
to the levels of inequality that remade a feudal order
which meant only 10 % of males could vote for
the 1 % of males who owned the most property.

There the vast majority of the population, men
women and children worked the textile machines
until their wages were reduced. As power looms
replaced handlooms, so many highly skilled men
took revenge against the machines that made them
unemployed, by destroying them.

In evolution no animal had even been given the power
over other animals on the scale that factory owners
had over the girls and boys who worked the machines
the factory owner owned, all for such a petty pittance.

Meanwhile distant figures wrung their hands
over the suffering of those they had power over,
whilst offering no sense of respite.

Darwin, his cousin Herbert Spencer could live in the luxury
of the inherited wealth of their extended family  As males
they inherited so much because inheritance laws disinheriting so many.
They could proclaim their superiority, and profit much from the workers
the family employed much more than said labour could negotiate a life
away from labour for itself, away from the reach of the factory.

Such accumulated wealth, and insulating material comfort,
was just as much accumulated avarice as anything else.
Caught up in the social and physical mechanisms
that enclosed them, they disguised their lack of feeling towards others,