The Root of the Problem

In a recent article in 'Psychology Today', Alan S. Miller, PHD, discusses ten evolutionary theories that do a lot to explain human behavior, but is also very politically incorrect.

In the seventh theory, she discusses what Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals. The main point is that men peak in creativity, drive and expression in their early adult hood, usually around age 26. This is attributed to the time in which men need to work the hardest in order to obtain enough status and materials in order to attract a mate and have children. Shortly after this, their productivity drops off.

"Paul McCartney has not written a hit song in years, and now spends much of his time painting. Bill Gates is now a respectable businessman and philanthropist, and is no longer a computer whiz kid. J.D. Salinger now lives as a total recluse and has not published anything in more than three decades. Orson Welles was a mere 26 when he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane."

Although, this is very interesting, he goes on to make this point,

"The similarity between Bill Gates, Paul McCartney, and criminals—in fact, among all men throughout evolutionary history—points to an important concept in evolutionary biology: female choice."

"Women often say no to men. Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play in rock bands, and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them. Men have built (and destroyed) civilization in order to impress women, so that they might say yes."

There it is ladies. Stop asking for so much from men and settle for less and you can stop all that is evil in the world.