Being Selfish

After all the book was called The Selfish Gene and it ends up selfish. There is no altruism here, or at least I did not get the feeling of it. After some years of convincing myself that I was not selfish and I really cared fro the world, I saw the true reflection of every human being through this book. I know this is not much of a moral book, it was not Dawkins intention. WE have been fooled by our own conscious even if we try we will seem altruistic but it is our selfishness who ends up winning. We have been "cheating in subtle ways against our social companions"(236). Every part of us has a self interest, "single genes cheat against their other genes with which they share a body" (236).

Our genes have replicated in that way and that is why we are such a disappointment or we can say the whole earth is, and sadly " the success that a replicator has in this world will depend on what kind of world it is" (265). If that was our hope, to have some genes that were not selfish and worth replicating, well with what was just said we are screwed. 

 If it all depends on our world we have no hope...