Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

Why do people always imagine that there was a time when people were less corrupt & evil?

Brutal slavery & rape & violence were the norm all over the world for basically all of human history. When primative ideas or people from primative places invade modern societies we see a return of those behaviors.

I guess maybe people are so disconnected from the harshness of the natural world that they have just lost touch with everything?
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Jac 2y ago

Resource scarcity brings those behaviors back regardless of the cultural distance from those times it seems.

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Jeff Swann 2y ago

I don't think it's scarcity so much as a lack of ability to coordinate. Scarcity doesn't help tho.

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Jac 2y ago

The current state likely isn’t abject scarcity, and hopefully it never will be because as the degree of scarcity increases, the behavioral guidance from enculturation and social mores melts away. A person can see it in stressed animal populations, and well, at the end of the day, we’re just monkeys with lots of intellectual dressage.