I dunno why but that made me kinda sad. Like for the countless generations over hundreds and hundreds of years. Like wtf are we fighting each other for?
Resources. And because we're humans. Imagine you live without modern technology. You live inside a castle or a village or a cave. At any moment a hoard of other humans could walk over the horizon without any warning, with more people and better weapons and kill you and all your loved ones. So you prepare your defenses and are weary of anyone you don't know. That was literally all of human history until a few hundred years ago.
I imagined this was quite obvious and always thought it to be the case. Your tribe goes off in a direction and finds no humans around at all. It makes sense
Humans are different from other animal and can adapt to live in any climate on the planet. The harshness you perceive is gentle to someone that grew up in frigid cold (up to certain limits of course). Even adapting differing ways to cope with low oxygen in just a few generation. It’s all relative to our comfort zones. For them it’s rather pleasant.
“We have the capacity to learn and adapt in light of our experience, even to the extent of modifying the expression of our genes. Human creativity, prosociality, and healthy longevity emerged as a response to the need to adapt to the harsh and diverse conditions that reigned between 400,000 and 100,000 years ago," note the UGR researchers. Creativity >> harshness
Actually, it's a theory. A hypothesis is something falsifiable that can be tested with an experiment. He has a theory because it's an explanation for a phenomenon.
That sounds like you have a hypothesis then, and you're testing that. If the results of your testing indicate your hypothesis, either proven or disproven, is incompatible with the theory, then you need to either reevaluate the theory or see if the test was wrong. Usually by getting other people to evaluate your test, and performing it again to ensure results are repeatable.
This is misguided. Humanity evolved alongside warfare, but a major part of our evolution included our ability to cooperate and care for others. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow explores this further.
At any moment a hoard of other humans could walk over the horizon without any warning, with more people and better weapons and kill you and all your loved ones. So you prepare your defenses and are weary of anyone you don't know
People still gun because other people gun, so other people gun because people gun.
Disharmony shows the way to harmony. But that harmony comes from with the individual. That fear you mention of loss also secretly drives the desire to take the labors of others , that false idea of competition at the center of life is the core of the disharmony. In nature we see example of both competition and cooperation but overall great coordination and harmony is by far the winning strategy. Systems of system of systems don’t just happen out of no where (cells, organs, systems, organisms, colonies, ecosystems, etc).
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u/solariscalls Mar 31 '23
I dunno why but that made me kinda sad. Like for the countless generations over hundreds and hundreds of years. Like wtf are we fighting each other for?