Our altruism was a very successful group survival strategy. Problem is that it is easily abused by parasitical human subgroups (looking at you, jews) and farmed by less successful subgroups (negros).
Empathy and altruism allowed us to forge a place in an unforgiving and harsh environment but it is now being used to destroy us.
Interestingly, groups with characteristically less empathy (Chinese) are seeming to hold their own against the Pos... For now.
If empathy is a survival strategy for an unforgiving and harsh environment, shouldn't we all create an unforgiving and harsh environment for us to live in?
This sounds to be the next step on the evolutionary ladder. Humans are able to shape their environment. Those who fail to make it harsh and deadly for misfits and outsiders have to disappear from the genepool.
I think that is where the notion of societal cycles comes from (harsh times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men we are here, weak men make harsh times). We are at the onset of a societal collapse (see John Michael Greer). The signs of it are blatant and everywhere. What that collapse will look like and where it will lead and if we will ever recover what we have now are open to discussion. All I know for sure is that at some time in the distant Stone Age future there will be a group of long nosed parasites setting tribe against tribe so they can live off the pain and settle comfortably in the chaos.
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