I feel like that just makes it better. Their entire world view of nihilistic zero-sum dominance is based on the behavior of wild animals in prison.
And when you put those wild animals back outside the "Alphas" turn out to just be parents who diligently teach, support, and defend their kids while being respectful of the territory of others and cooperating closely with they family and friends.
David Harvey points out that even the Darwinian theory of evolution and the focus on competition and natural selection - while not wrong - likely overemphasizes that bit as Darwin himself was a part of British industrial capitalism of his time. Base informs the superstructure and all that. There were evolutionary scientists after Darwin who weren't from such an aggressively capitalist societies who focused more on how cooperation can drive evolution as well.
I feel like that just makes it better. Their entire world view of nihilistic zero-sum dominance is based on the behavior of wild animals in prison.
And when you put those wild animals back outside the "Alphas" turn out to just be parents who diligently teach, support, and defend their kids while being respectful of the territory of others and cooperating closely with they family and friends.
Welcome to America, prison capital of the world
David Harvey points out that even the Darwinian theory of evolution and the focus on competition and natural selection - while not wrong - likely overemphasizes that bit as Darwin himself was a part of British industrial capitalism of his time. Base informs the superstructure and all that. There were evolutionary scientists after Darwin who weren't from such an aggressively capitalist societies who focused more on how cooperation can drive evolution as well.
This was kind of Kropotkin's whole thing as well
You know I seem to recall Harvey mentioning Russians in that section but not Kropotkin by name, I think.
This is why I recommend Kropotkins Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution to everyone. It really is a fantastic book