Revolutions happen all the time. The Chinese Revolution that brought the Communists to power, after a chaotic start,has now produced a state that has doubled life expectancy, raised per capital income from $200 a yr to $12,000 (which is worth, in purchasing power, 3 times as much) and is amazing the world with its economic and technological achievements, a socialist nation, using the private sector to help build the wealth needed for a communist society, on the path to an advanced communism that, in an advanced world, reclaims the values of the primitive communism of the 300,000 yrs of homo sapien evolution. The powers that be want us to believe that change is not possible, but they would not do that if they did not know that change is the one contact of history. My mission is to help people understand what is necessary to act to reclaim our birthright, that we are, in fact, evolved as a cooperative people, with inherited trust, altruism, and cooperation, and that slavery and war only were invented, with the invention of private property, about 10,000 yrs ago, after 300,000 yrs of primitive communism, which was egalitarian, sharing, and without war. Until we understand we are evolved to live in such a world, we will never understand how to reclaim it....
I would say that both cooperation and violence are part of our DNA, as we see in chimpanzees, our closest relatives. If violence were not part of our DNA then agriculture and organized civilization would not have led to war. https://www.history.com/articles/when-did-humans-start-waging-wars
The Chinese Revolution hurt many fine educated people. The current regime destroyed Tibetan culture, oppresses the Uighur people and regularly threatens Taiwan.
I just ordered the book, The Paradox of Goodness, which deals with this paradox. The author studied chimps with Jane Goodel for decades. I want to read it to challenge my thesis that we evolved for 300,000 yrs without ANY (zero...pretty compelling data) lethal group conflict. Then with the new inventions of property and inequality, masters and slaves, classes and hiararchis, top-down rule, religion, and war, everything changed.
Neurotscientists report that we still have the old DNA in us, tho we are manipulated into betrayng it by fighting wars, etc. Trust is inherited; distrust must be learned. That tells us that our older inheritance still dominates and that if we "alter or abolish (to cite the Declaration of INdependence justiyng revolution) " our institutions, we can overcome the alienation we experience by living in contradiction to our evolutionary nature as sharing peaceful beings, born to trust, by replacing property, inequality, hierarchy, and violence with the values still intact in our DNA, based on trust, altrusim, an cooperation....and in this revolution and reclaiming of values that we inherited from those 300,000 yrs, we can overcome the fabricated "nature" that we are molded into from birth, teaching us to hate, to distrust, to compete, to fight. I am open to being persuaded otherwise, which is why I am going to read the man who studies chimps, but we have as much in common with bonobos who are a peaceful primate. "bonobos are notably peaceful and cooperative, especially compared to their close relatives, chimpanzees. And genetically, we share about 98.7–99% of our DNA with bonobos—roughly the same amount as with chimpanzees. But behaviorally, the differences are stark.
✅ Bonobo behavior: peaceful and cooperative
Bonobos are often described as the most egalitarian and least violent of the great apes:
Low aggression: Bonobos rarely engage in lethal violence. Male dominance is weak, and there’s no known case of a bonobo killing another bonobo in the wild—a striking contrast to chimps.
Female cooperation: Females form strong coalitions that curb male aggression and reduce dominance hierarchies.
Conflict resolution through sex: Bonobos use sexual behavior (including same-sex interactions) to diffuse tension, form bonds, and resolve conflict—a unique trait among primates.
Food sharing: They're more likely to share food with unrelated individuals than chimpanzees, and even with strangers in lab experiments." To claim we are lie chimps is to deny that homo sapien evolution, for 95% of its duration, was bonobo-like, not chimp like,is to recognize the truth, as I see it, base on the evidence of centuries of peaceful bonobo like behavior, which favored survival and today, even more so.
Revolutions happen all the time. The Chinese Revolution that brought the Communists to power, after a chaotic start,has now produced a state that has doubled life expectancy, raised per capital income from $200 a yr to $12,000 (which is worth, in purchasing power, 3 times as much) and is amazing the world with its economic and technological achievements, a socialist nation, using the private sector to help build the wealth needed for a communist society, on the path to an advanced communism that, in an advanced world, reclaims the values of the primitive communism of the 300,000 yrs of homo sapien evolution. The powers that be want us to believe that change is not possible, but they would not do that if they did not know that change is the one contact of history. My mission is to help people understand what is necessary to act to reclaim our birthright, that we are, in fact, evolved as a cooperative people, with inherited trust, altruism, and cooperation, and that slavery and war only were invented, with the invention of private property, about 10,000 yrs ago, after 300,000 yrs of primitive communism, which was egalitarian, sharing, and without war. Until we understand we are evolved to live in such a world, we will never understand how to reclaim it....
I would say that both cooperation and violence are part of our DNA, as we see in chimpanzees, our closest relatives. If violence were not part of our DNA then agriculture and organized civilization would not have led to war. https://www.history.com/articles/when-did-humans-start-waging-wars
The Chinese Revolution hurt many fine educated people. The current regime destroyed Tibetan culture, oppresses the Uighur people and regularly threatens Taiwan.
I just ordered the book, The Paradox of Goodness, which deals with this paradox. The author studied chimps with Jane Goodel for decades. I want to read it to challenge my thesis that we evolved for 300,000 yrs without ANY (zero...pretty compelling data) lethal group conflict. Then with the new inventions of property and inequality, masters and slaves, classes and hiararchis, top-down rule, religion, and war, everything changed.
Neurotscientists report that we still have the old DNA in us, tho we are manipulated into betrayng it by fighting wars, etc. Trust is inherited; distrust must be learned. That tells us that our older inheritance still dominates and that if we "alter or abolish (to cite the Declaration of INdependence justiyng revolution) " our institutions, we can overcome the alienation we experience by living in contradiction to our evolutionary nature as sharing peaceful beings, born to trust, by replacing property, inequality, hierarchy, and violence with the values still intact in our DNA, based on trust, altrusim, an cooperation....and in this revolution and reclaiming of values that we inherited from those 300,000 yrs, we can overcome the fabricated "nature" that we are molded into from birth, teaching us to hate, to distrust, to compete, to fight. I am open to being persuaded otherwise, which is why I am going to read the man who studies chimps, but we have as much in common with bonobos who are a peaceful primate. "bonobos are notably peaceful and cooperative, especially compared to their close relatives, chimpanzees. And genetically, we share about 98.7–99% of our DNA with bonobos—roughly the same amount as with chimpanzees. But behaviorally, the differences are stark.
✅ Bonobo behavior: peaceful and cooperative
Bonobos are often described as the most egalitarian and least violent of the great apes:
Low aggression: Bonobos rarely engage in lethal violence. Male dominance is weak, and there’s no known case of a bonobo killing another bonobo in the wild—a striking contrast to chimps.
Female cooperation: Females form strong coalitions that curb male aggression and reduce dominance hierarchies.
Conflict resolution through sex: Bonobos use sexual behavior (including same-sex interactions) to diffuse tension, form bonds, and resolve conflict—a unique trait among primates.
Food sharing: They're more likely to share food with unrelated individuals than chimpanzees, and even with strangers in lab experiments." To claim we are lie chimps is to deny that homo sapien evolution, for 95% of its duration, was bonobo-like, not chimp like,is to recognize the truth, as I see it, base on the evidence of centuries of peaceful bonobo like behavior, which favored survival and today, even more so.
We're talking about a time when human population was very low. There wasn't much to fight about. How on earth could we possibly return to that?