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It turns out all of humanity is just a bunch of apes, and our ape behavioral instincts are deeply fucking us up.
Our DNA tells us how to behave, because for some 100,000 years, life was brutal and the only behavior that was passed on was those of successful humans.
Humans succeeded by gathering into tribes. It was those humans who lived and reproduced their DNA.
We believe we need the tribe in order to survive. So, we need the validation of the tribe.
Then, we need to protect the tribe from weakness, and determine roles and ranking. In order to do that, we will provoke battles. Bitter fights will occur. Recasting of the tribe will happen.
But all that doesn't exactly map out in modern civilization. Here, and everywhere in life, we are weirdly doing all this without even realizing it. We don't really need to any more, it's not helpful and it seems to often prevent us from moving forward and finding truths. But it's built-in...
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