and bonobos, chimpanzee’s closest relatives have found evolutionary strategies that work without wars. we have changed our ways of eating and living before, we can again. all we need, as a society, is the imagination to remake ourselves as we have before
Yes but humans are not wolfs. Each behave differently.
Yeah, humans are two wolves. Way different psychology.
We have to feed the good wolf…
Speak for yourself. There are two wolves inside me --one of them respects boundaries.
Primates also have territories, and chimps, one of our closest relatives, have wars over them.
and bonobos, chimpanzee’s closest relatives have found evolutionary strategies that work without wars. we have changed our ways of eating and living before, we can again. all we need, as a society, is the imagination to remake ourselves as we have before
There is a study from 2024 that says bonobo chimpanzees can be even more agressive than Gombe chimpanzees
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00253-7
Edit; Sync did not play nice with the link.
We have so much extra food we don’t even really need to change much.
And they’re so much smarter than us, we saw no reason to change such a winning strategy.
As a whole, humanity is still just a bunch of angry apes.
That’s not accurate. Humans behave very predictably in most cases