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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 8:46 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 4, p. 30

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PRODIGAL HUMAN

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…development of greatest import, with the greater impact on the ones that follow, before the ones that are a consequence of the one before or they are of lower importance in their effect on our “descents.”

Prenatal Suffocation and Starvation ... Fetal Malnutrition

Fetal malnutrition is one such development that happened concurrently with birth trauma and prematurity, with its resulting secondary altriciality.

Andre Briend (1979) brought this to our attention relatively recently as our evolutionary science goes.1 What it basically means is that during the last month of gestation the growth of the prenate, as measured by its weight, slows down, levels off.

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 15, 2026, 6:40 AM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 5, p. 52

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PRODIGAL HUMAN

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…-site construct we prop up with all kinds of twisted, bizarre “truths” to explain ourselves to ourselves.

Furthermore, this schizoid tendency in humans sets up a funda- mental insecurity regarding Reality and Nature — a feeling of inferiority and insecurity and uncertainness about oneself and one’s nature. However, such feelings require a compensatory mechanism. That compensatory mechanism is Ego — quite different from the self of other beings in Nature. For Ego is comprised of the compensatory mechanisms of denial, inflation of self, and superiority vis–à–vis Nature, the All That Is, and Nature-God Itself.2

Ego Tells Us We are Superior to Nature

Part of this repression and compensation means that impairments that we have because of our unique birth and insufficient satisfaction of early needs, such as language, will be touted as proof of our superiority over Nature. We have no inkling that the superiority belief is a result of our prematurity and its consequences of uncomfortable feelings of insecurity and inferiority.

Superiority Is Our Defense Against Our Felt Inferiority

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:17 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 4, p. 29

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“We feel ourselves to be a victim to our surroundings and begin doing the opposite of what all other species and even our earliest ancestors did during their times in late gestation: We split off from our rootedness in the mother and we cast that unyielding surround of the womb and placenta — and the mother, by proxy — into ‘the enemy,’ needing to be fought. We create a duality between us and Nature, us and other people ... and in terms of how this comes out later in rampant misogyny, between us and women, if we are male.”

While many of our descents occurred over time, in a historical progression, one following the other, others happened concurrently, or else we have no way of knowing which development came earlier than another. When they developed together or around the same time, for the most part, in ordering these descents of man, I put the…

THE FOURTH DESCENT — FETAL MALNUTRITION

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*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 5, p 51

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Anyway, this near infinite variation of human personality results in near infinite differences in the ways newborns will be attended to and nurtured. Newborns are helpless and dependent on the good will of their caregivers to survive and thrive; and the differences in the good will, or lack thereof, and skill and intelligence of caregivers is, of course, as varied as are the differences between human personalities.

These differences in personality, affecting the differences in the ways newborns will be cared for, create the vast differences and myriad possibilities of personalities that people can have. This deter- mines the kind of caregiver people become as adults. This, in turn, affects how those caregivers will care or not care for their newborns, and so on around again.

Ego and Its Origins

This fact alone separates us from Nature, for it means we will have near infinite constructions and relations to Reality and Nature — none of which are perfect or even consistent with other humans. It means we will construct an opposite and alien reality. And this oppo-…

THE FIFTH DESCENT — EGO

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:30 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 4, p. 29

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THE FOURTH DESCENT — FETAL MALNUTRITION

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Chapter 4

The Fourth Descent — Fetal Malnutrition:

Standing Up Had Us Starving and Suffocating in the Womb

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 6:58 AM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

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THE FIFTH DESCENT — EGO

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Leave off for now how even fetal development is affected by substances that the mother ingests as well as the thoughts and feel- ings she experiences. Certainly, that adds additional variability to what humans end up becoming. Still, it is generally true that our fundamental needs as part of our staying alive and growing to maturation are taken care of near perfectly in the womb, as are other species.

This changes at birth. At this point forward, the needs, essential for survival and growth, have to be provided by imperfect human adults. These adults are as different in personality as can possibly be. For they are the consequence of themselves, as well, having gone through the unique set of birthing circumstances and widely varying satisfaction of needs in their earliest life. Indeed, humans are as differ- ent from each other as in the world of Nature entire species are different from other species! So, add loneliness, as well as alienation, to our pain as the suffering planetmate. Beginning to sound like being human on Earth is for the Universe the equivalent of that hell we have fashioned in our minds, isn’t it?

Anyway, this near infinite variation of human personality results in near infinite differences in the ways newborns will be attended to and nurtured.

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 8:04 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 28

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Secondary altriciality in human infants means that there is a greater need for care, for “mothering” — because of the newborn’s greater helplessness, greater dependence, greater vulnerability — than that of all other mammals postnatally. However even the best mother ing cannot be as perfect in satisfying the infant’s biological needs as was the situation for it in the womb. Hence, there is going to be a gap between need and fulfillment inherent in this prematurity, an inherent frustration of need to at least some extent, and, it follows, inherently an increase of at least some amount in the degree of pain suffered by the newborn and infant in the nonsatisfaction or incomplete satisfaction of its biological needs.

Yet secondary altriciality is important in another respect. Since this phase represents a dependent phase that corresponds to phases that occur to other species in utero, it leaves Homo sapiens vulnerable to neurosis and mental illness — its roots in the pain of unmet biological need — to an extent unprecedented, in any other species. This also contributed to increased brain size, increased secondary altriciality, and so forth in the way discussed above for birth. Thus, we have another vicious cycle, again with “fevered” brains and culture the byproduct.

PRODIGAL HUMAN

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:11 AM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

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Parents Are Imperfect

Human parents are responsible for overseeing and assisting in the successful development of our newborns at levels of development that are taken care of by biology — refined to perfection over the course of billions of years — for other species. That includes our own species at its earliest beginnings, before that birth trauma and prematurity began ... which is millions of years ago.

Nature does not vary. It is as precise as the laws of physics and biology. It does for all species what it has done for billions of years. It has perfected itself in any process over the course of that immense period of time ... anything less than near perfection has been eliminated through natural selection. All species benefit from such perfection of Nature, as do humans over the course of most of our nine-month gestation.1

But then we are born.

PRODIGAL HUMAN

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:33 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 28

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PRODIGAL HUMAN

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The infant has complex needs, which are as complex and de- manding as those that are taken care of by other species in the womb, and must rely on human adults, with all their flaws, shortcomings, and imperfections to somehow be able to attend to and satisfy them. Rarely can humans do it well, and never can they do it as well as Nature does for primates in the womb.

By comparison, all other mammals, when born, are more able to provide for themselves, are further along in their development toward independence when born, are more capable of bringing about or at least initiating the satisfaction of their needs . . . hence they are less dependent, and vulnerable, than are human infants.

Secondary altriciality in human infants means that there is a greater need for care, for “mothering” — because of the newborn’s greater helplessness, greater dependence, greater vulnerability — than that of all other mammals postnatally. However even the best mother- ing cannot be as perfect in satisfying the infant’s biological needs as was the situation for it in the womb. Hence, there is going to be a gap…

@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:12 AM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 5, p 50

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However the outside world and its events are infinitely more random, haphazard, and uncertain than the events of any species before birth. Biology is simply a lot more consistent than are the actions of humans or the outside world. So those analogous needs of ours that are going to be imperfectly met because of the randomness of human action and the outside world are going to be met near perfectly and consistently for other species inside the biological confines of their existence before birth.

Thus our traumatic birth, plus our imperfect satisfaction of needs after birth, makes for a wide variety of types of humans and personalities. Yet all of them are in some way more deprived and stressed than they would be without those first two elements.

So the ones who are responsible for providing the satisfaction of those postnatal needs of the infant are going to be such impaired adults. Consider then how well they are likely to perform in providing for the excessive neediness of the newborn compared to the auto- matic and near perfect satisfaction of needs for other species at that same relative biological stage of development being in a perfectly providing biological surround of one sort or other.

Parents Are Imperfect

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*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p 27

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Why We Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Let us now add another factor to this development of supposed intelligence and culture. As I have been saying, altricial means humans are born helpless. We would die if not cared for. Secondary altriciality of humans, and only humans, means our brains and consequent functioning are even less advanced than other species at birth. We are, in essence, born premature relative to other species. We are born even more helpless. And the later development of our brains comes in a social, not biological, surround.

The period after birth requires that the newborn get its needs met indirectly, that is, through someone else. In the womb, one’s needs are handled automatically by Nature and biology. One does not have to cry in order to get nutrients. However, the human newborn, in order to get its needs met in that time of dependency must communicate. At the same time, it also helps to be non-fussy, to smile a lot, and to be adorable. So these social requirements — conflicting as some of them are (that is a whole other story; we’ll get to it) — are put upon our infants. Humans thus learn sycophancy and conformity right at the beginning, even prior to any enculturation in society which might push those tendencies even further.

THE THIRD DESCENT — PREMATURITY

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*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

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Being Half-Born Makes Humans Variable ... and Reckless

Our birth defines us humans, and it represents a separation in our understanding of life from all other — nine million and more — of species of planetmates. The additional thing is that it is related to a helplessness of our newborns, more helpless after birth than even the most helpless of newborns of other species.

So we have birth trauma with a physically and mentally undevel- oped fetus having to confront a most horrendous ordeal of making a huge head fit through a narrow pelvic opening. Then we have addi- tional trauma in that we have an excessive neediness and reliance on the environment to provide those needs afterward — those physical and neurological needs.

THE FIFTH DESCENT — EGO

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Primates are rarely monogamous, for starters. Among our fur-bearing cousins, only the gibbons mate for life. Chimps are promiscuous and the fathers are not involved at all in the care of the young. Being non- monogamous as well as promiscuous, for one thing, paternity is not known. Some other mammals, such as wolves, pair off for life; and the males are protective and caring of the young, as the mothers are, but the paternity is known. They essentially have family units. Not so for our more closely related mammal planetmates.

However, all these factors of sociability, monogamy, division of labor, and many other changes that came with infant helplessness made it so natural selection would favor those of us who mated for life, were monogamous, and had male assistance for the mother at and around the times of its roles of mothering. Thus, families.

So, culture is born in the helplessness of the human infant.

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…configuration has women at the center, dispensing care and nourishment, and men on the peripheries, doing whatever they can find to do when they are absolutely not needed for reproduction, defense, or nonessentials and luxuries like meat and “entertainment” — that is to say, ritual, religion, and performance.

Division of Labor

Thus secondary altriciality can be seen to be responsible, as well, for the division of labor we notice in all societies between men and women, with it being extremely pronounced in some cultures and in others not as much, though it exists. The increased dependence of the infant on its mother after birth contributed to a division of labor with women needing protection during their times of increased vulnerability and incapacitation and time being taken up in the care of the very young. It contributed to gender roles, therefore.

Family Units

Beyond that, these tendencies, rooted in that dependency of infants, pushed for the creation of family units. Remember, families are not a big deal to our primate relatives. In chimps they do not exist at all.

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*PRODIGAL HUMAN: The Descents of Man* (2016) by Michael Adzema.

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THE FIFTH DESCENT — EGO

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…more dependent and of lower status. We must rely on the “good will” of Nature and are no longer connected to it. We have become vulnerable.

Now, as I said, this is indeed what happens with our altricial nature. We have a secondary altriciality, which means we are born more helpless and premature than any other species. We are only half-ready for life at birth. We are half-borns, essentially — only half ready for life at birth ... relative to other species.

What this means is that there is a huge gulf between us and all other species, all other planetmates, in all things ... beginning with the way we view Reality. For humans, more than any other species, see Reality through a fog of trauma, stress, pain, neurosis, and ten- sion unlike anything known to other beings. We are the suffering species; we are the ones uniquely commissioned to forget through trauma and then learn again through pain ... bringing to Reality whatever unique perspective, or Experience, implicated in that.

What this means has profound ramifications for everything about our existence, including our situation today, as we stand on the brink of an apocalyptic ecocide and humanicide, unlike anything expe- rienced, or even imagined, on Earth in its previous four and a half billion years.

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Thus, there are measurable differences between women and men in their desires for protection versus for risk-taking; for nesting as compared to wandering; for family-home life as against adventure and a shackle-less existence; and finally, for analytical detached pur- suits of a solitary nature versus social, people-oriented, playful, and family pursuits. That hardly means the potential for both tendencies does not exist equally in both. Yet, statistics indicate that secondary altriciality with its demands for mothering had an effect on male and female behavior, needs, and desires. Women have stronger desires for, and more actual need for, security. Whereas men are more likely to feel relatively more unattached to relationship, to family, and even to nurturing and providing ... despite what men say.

Social Structure

As a consequence of secondary altriciality, humans have a distinct social structure in the family and the group. Indeed, the natural social configuration has women at the center, dispensing care and nourish- ment, and men on the peripheries, doing whatever they can find to do when they are absolutely not needed for reproduction, defense, or nonessentials and luxuries like meat and “entertainment” — that is to say, ritual, religion, and performance.

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“The fateful process of civilization would ... have set in with man’s adoption of an erect posture.” — Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security.” — Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

We Ain’t Born Typical ... and Loss of Eden

Our birth separates us from Nature. It makes us distinct from all other species, and it is expressed mythically as a loss of Eden, a loss of a Golden Age. A loss of an Eden, a fall from grace of some sort, is a universal human myth. In it, we leave off a direct relationship or connection to a higher power or ultimate reality. We become instead…

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