1964 by Michael Buxton

Author:Michael Buxton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Published: 2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Evolution

THE SATURDAY NIGHT party was the usual affair. The blokes gatecrash some young girl’s party after she somehow talked her parents into letting her have a few trusted friends around. The parents go happily off to a toffy dinner somewhere to the house of Toorak friends. Meanwhile, back at the camp, a horde of blokes descend uninvited on a house they would normally never be allowed anywhere near. Toorak toffs might be able to learn how to get on in the world courtesy of their parents’ money and the best schools but one glance told them they couldn’t bluff or cheat their way past these blokes. The girls though were tantalised by rough outsiders. Most pretended indifference. But a few might be up for something exciting and fleeting. Jerker had an unerring instinct for such young women, trying every one he sensed might be up for it.

“Up for what?”

“Whad’ya’reckon?”

“He might be all talk. How would anyone know?”

“Because he never tells. He’s a gentleman at heart. You should have come to the party.”

Jerker was a serious rooter, said he couldn’t help it. Men were programmed by biology to perpetuate the species by proliferating their genes. We were crammed full of testosterone that gave us the strength to compete with other blokes to use all that sperm. Testosterone wired us for sex even in the womb and made us violent if we didn’t get our way. Sexual promiscuity was natural and unavoidable. Men couldn’t escape their fate, had to seek out mates to produce offspring to help the species survive. The process benefited everyone. Men were natural rooting and killing machines loaded with genes that have survived and replicated. These genes then use us to advantage themselves by adapting us or our societies to our environments. We think we choose but behave as dictated, the helpless victims of unconscious conniving substance.

Bucky marvelled that Jerker, a labourer, could expound such a sophisticated theory of behaviour but decided it was crass because Jerker’s mind was in his dick. Jerker proved that complex ideas could spread like an incubus infecting all in an unseen contagion progressively simplified for human consumption. He said that Jerker’s dive into evolution didn’t sound too good either for the women to be left with kids from philandering men. But Jerker had this worked out. Women sought monogamy as the way to ensnare a man to protect and provide for her and their offspring. Successful pairing worked for women and allowed human society to prosper but men always yearned to break free from its shackles. Men were like cats and horses, supposedly domesticated but always retaining a streak of the wild. Bucky didn’t care for Jerker’s proliferation theory. Most men hated violence and avoided it even in war. Jerker was the kind that talked big but when he married would acquiesce quickly to petticoat government. Besides, we weren’t animals, differed in every way from primates, our nearest animal relative. We could rise above nature, shape it, control it, must never give in to its excesses.

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