Animal Mind: a human brain with no conscience, or an animal brain with a personally motivated human ego. Scary thought indeed. Animal mind is the seat of the male ego. It considers nothing other than itself. It’s most base instincts are acted out and motivated by self-serving personal agendas and vendettas, and self-centered wants, desires and demands. The primal male ego animal mind considers itself in a constant battle for survival of the fittest.
A battle is meant to be fought and won. When the only objective is self-preservation, then the ends will always justify the means. If the only end game requires a winner and a loser, how can compassion, cooperation, compromise and community reflect anything but fleckless foolishness?
In TFI’s Volume 2 Chapter 4; The Polity of Male Domination, I expose Social Darwinism for the most sublime mechanism devised by the male ego animal mind in its quest to divide and conquer that it is. Darwins Theory of Evolution was basically based on adaptation; that the odds of any species evolution depended on its ability to successfully adapt to the circumstances that either supported or threatened its survival.
But the natural world is bound by the laws of nature. It’s not self-aware or personally motivated. It is pure. There is no ego. Social Darwinism, on the other hand, has nothing to do with adaptation. It has everything to do with domination and is bound only by the personally motivated value systems that use metrics of perceived strength vs. weakness, success vs. failure, fit vs. unfit, superior vs. inferior.
The concept of Social Darwinism isn’t new. It has long and well served the males ego’s sense of superiority going back to the beginning when God created Man in his own image, and Woman was later crafted out of the body of man. But it began to take a broader foothold into western social, economic and geo-political parlay during the turn of the 20th century and has remained as the central premise of the neoliberal conservative movement we see today.
11/25 Google Search AI Overview. “What is Social Darwinism?”
“Social Darwinism
· A set of ideologies that applies Charles Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” to human society, asserting that the strongest individuals and groups are naturally superior and will rise to power. This belief has been used to justify social inequality, racism, imperialism, and laissez-faire economic policies, often arguing that social welfare interferes with natural selection. Key figures associated with these ideas include Herbert Spencer, who popularized the phrase “survival of the fittest,” and William Graham Sumner.”
“Core beliefs
· Survival of the fittest: The core belief is that in a competitive struggle for existence, the physically and intellectually strongest individuals and groups will succeed and dominate.
· Justification of inequality: Social Darwinism claims that social and economic disparities are natural outcomes reflecting inherent differences in ability and moral character.
· Opposition to social support: Proponents argued that government assistance and welfare programs disrupt this natural process by supporting the “weak” and hindering the progress of the “fit”.”
“Historical applications
· Imperialism: It was used to rationalize the conquest of weaker nations by stronger ones, viewing it as a natural and inevitable process.
· Racsim: Social Darwinism fueled racist ideologies by suggesting that certain races were biologically superior to others, leading to discriminatory practices and policies.
· Economic policies: It provided a framework for laissez-fair capitalism, arguing that wealth was a sign of fitness and that the government should not interfere with the free market.
· Eugenics: It contributed to the eugenics movement, which sought to “improve” the human race through selective breeding and by preventing people deemed “unfit” from reproducing.”
The core tenants of Social Darwinism are nothing less than despicable, but again – not new! We’ve been witnessing the rise of nationalism, isolationism, materialism, and individualism all under the veil of populism since the 1980’s.
However, nothing has come close to what those of enormous means and power under the second Trump administration have ruthlessly wrought, not only on hardworking Americans and others living and contributing here, but on the world’s most vulnerable, impoverished, and oppressed; the majority women and children.
Trump Administration – Jan 2025 to Nov 2025
· 55,000 federal workers have been fired, and over 90,000 more have resigned due to federal employment ultimatums demanding unethical practices or partisan loyalties. The sectors most hit by these budget and work force cuts are the Department of Health and Human Services; the Centers for Disease Control; AmeriCorps; National Park Service; Department of Interior including funds for a Refugee Resettlement Facility; Department of Education; and the Environmental Protection Agency.
· 42M have had federal funding for food stamps cut off (40% children; 20% seniors; 40% veterans, disabled, sick and unemployed).
· 6M have had their Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program for heating assistance cut off.
· 25M have been kicked of Medicaid. Of those, 5M who qualified for ACA will lose it Jan ’26. 22M others will have monthly premiums double to quadruple.
· US Agency for international Development (USAID 1961-9/25) cut off. In the last 20 years, USAID has saved 92M from starvation, 30M of whom are under 5 years old. The annual costs to do this is 5M per year. Over 5000 locations in 100 countries closed their doors to the hungry overnight.
· 500 metric tons of USAID food were left to rot in a Dubai warehouse costing $800,000 American tax dollars. It was incinerated in July 2025 at an additional cost of $100,000 to the American taxpayer. Read that again. It cost the American taxpayer nearly 1M to deny and burn food meant to feed some of the most impoverished children, women and men in the world.
· DHS reports 527,000 deportations and 1.6M self-deportations since ICE operations began. Their own records show just 53% of those had pending charges or convictions. Just 7% of those were serious or violent crimes, and the rest are traffic violations or petty theft. 47% of ALL detainees have NO criminal record other than living in this country without citizenship, and there is no data on the countless detainees who were actually in legal compliance with their immigration status when abducted by ICE.
· The Voice of America cut off. Started in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, this Worldwide radio broadcasts in 40 languages to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy with accurate and objective news. For many, a small light in the oppressive dark has been extinguished.
All of this has been thrust upon the US and the world with the backdrop of a 4 Trillion-dollar tax cut for the richest people in the US and even the world, or 400B every year for 10 years. The male ego Animal Mind isn’t even pretending to hide it’s distain for the vulnerable and less fortunate. It detests weakness. Fairness, charity and empathy are pathetic to the Animal Mind. Advantage should be glorified, not unheeded. If you’re starting the race on the outside track, you’re a loser. If your starting on the inside track, you’re a winner. And that’s all that matters – literally.
Compassion, cooperation, compromise and community are a direct threat to the male ego’s existence and so cannot be allowed to proliferate. Men at the highest levels of government and most influential in the Maga movement have publicly expressed their contempt for concern, consideration, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
“My administration has taken action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense — and these are policies that were absolute nonsense — throughout the government and the private sector.” ~ President Trump World Economic Forum; Davos, Switzerland 1/24/25
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ are propaganda words for racism, sexism and other -isms.” “DEI must die.” ~ Head Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk X December 12 and 16
“I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is our diversity is our strength,” ~ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Pentagon Speech to Joint Chiefs Feb 7, 2025
“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.” Charlie Kirk CEO Turning Point USA Show 2022
Diversity, equity and inclusion says that merit and excellence shouldn’t be measured by social or personal bias, and inherent advantage should not undermine equal representation. But in the male ego Animal Mind, inherent advantage is always the winner, and inherent disadvantage is always the loser, and only the fittest deserve to survive.
When the two halves of our human whole, Female Creational Conscience and Male Creative conscience, form their rightful union, only then will compassion, cooperation, compromise and community overcome the depraved male ego of Animal Mind.
TL Dayen
November 15, 2025