It hasn't always been that way for 300,000 yrs homo sapiens live in egalitarian, sharing and non-violent communities but that changed with the Ag Revolution when the new institutions based on surpluses and the concept of property arose including masters and slaves, inequality, social classes, top own rule, religion to justify, war to enforce and steal. Our basic humanity from that long period of evolution is still altruistic, but undermined by institutions that arose to create what we call civilization. How this transition from egalitarian to hierarchal took place is not yet totally understood, but it cannot exist without the concept of property, which did not exist for our long evolution.
Today, scientists tell us that while trust in inherited, distrust must be learned. The military creates killers by stripping individuals of their autonomy and teaching them to hate. They have to suppress the inherent disapproval of violence and then use dehumanization of the "enemy" to create young men eager to kill total strangers who have never done anything wrong to them. What takes place in transforming young men taught "not to hit" into killers is a process that mirrors the transition of homo sapien communities from sharing societies into aggressive, acquisitive warriors.
My guess is that to reclaim our evolutionary heritage (still somewhat preserved in the family with its communal "From each according to his abilities to each according to her needs) , we must reshape the meaning of property and reclaim the commons which belong to all, which can be done in a thousand ways, from taxation (redistribution ) to workers coops and labor unions, from making industries public utilities, and above all, by replacing the current plutocracy with democracy. It won't happen without great effort, disruption, violent resistance, and massive propaganda against the efforts to end wars, exploitation, and environmental degradation and create what we were promised in the US founding document, "equality and consent of the governed. " that radical idea started a revolution and and it will take a revolution to create it.
You'll have to provide some evidence of that broad statement. Humans have been at each other's throats since forever. Genetic selection, the strongest go and take.
Sure, in small communities it was necessary to cooperate in order to survive, another trait that is inherited through genetics.
But there were always the ingroups and the outgroups.
It hasn't always been that way for 300,000 yrs homo sapiens live in egalitarian, sharing and non-violent communities but that changed with the Ag Revolution when the new institutions based on surpluses and the concept of property arose including masters and slaves, inequality, social classes, top own rule, religion to justify, war to enforce and steal. Our basic humanity from that long period of evolution is still altruistic, but undermined by institutions that arose to create what we call civilization. How this transition from egalitarian to hierarchal took place is not yet totally understood, but it cannot exist without the concept of property, which did not exist for our long evolution.
Today, scientists tell us that while trust in inherited, distrust must be learned. The military creates killers by stripping individuals of their autonomy and teaching them to hate. They have to suppress the inherent disapproval of violence and then use dehumanization of the "enemy" to create young men eager to kill total strangers who have never done anything wrong to them. What takes place in transforming young men taught "not to hit" into killers is a process that mirrors the transition of homo sapien communities from sharing societies into aggressive, acquisitive warriors.
My guess is that to reclaim our evolutionary heritage (still somewhat preserved in the family with its communal "From each according to his abilities to each according to her needs) , we must reshape the meaning of property and reclaim the commons which belong to all, which can be done in a thousand ways, from taxation (redistribution ) to workers coops and labor unions, from making industries public utilities, and above all, by replacing the current plutocracy with democracy. It won't happen without great effort, disruption, violent resistance, and massive propaganda against the efforts to end wars, exploitation, and environmental degradation and create what we were promised in the US founding document, "equality and consent of the governed. " that radical idea started a revolution and and it will take a revolution to create it.
You'll have to provide some evidence of that broad statement. Humans have been at each other's throats since forever. Genetic selection, the strongest go and take.
Sure, in small communities it was necessary to cooperate in order to survive, another trait that is inherited through genetics.
But there were always the ingroups and the outgroups.