, but all you have to do is look at the entirety of human history to know that we’re not really like that.
Written history is not the whole of human history. We have plenty of evidence that absent hierarchies, humans do cooperate naturally. All we need to do is get rid of capitalism and the state.
Hierarchies of power are an integral part of human nature and always have been.
Absolutely not. One just has to look at pre-farming societies to see the lie in that.
You’re talking about tens thousand plus of years ago and people we only have fragmets of information about, right?
Humans definitely aren’t the only animals who have power hierarchies, so it’s silly to assume they just spontaneously came into being when we invented writing.
Humans are greedy selfish animals, and the ones who are truly altruistic are outliers. You seem to forget that humans are the source of all of the pain and suffering that capitalism and such cause.
Written history is not the whole of human history. We have plenty of evidence that absent hierarchies, humans do cooperate naturally. All we need to do is get rid of capitalism and the state.
Absolutely not. One just has to look at pre-farming societies to see the lie in that.
You’re talking about tens thousand plus of years ago and people we only have fragmets of information about, right?
Humans definitely aren’t the only animals who have power hierarchies, so it’s silly to assume they just spontaneously came into being when we invented writing.
Humans are greedy selfish animals, and the ones who are truly altruistic are outliers. You seem to forget that humans are the source of all of the pain and suffering that capitalism and such cause.
Our closest genetic neighbours, the bonobos, have no hierarchies and handle everything through sex.
Human are inherently altruistic and cooperative , you can plainly see this every time disaster strikes
Our behavior is closer to chimpanzees than bonobos.
Our behaviors are closer to bonobos than chimpanzees
Lol, no. Bonobos are peaceful.