ive been up to my eyeballs lately in literature on primates, and it makes humans look weird. We're floating in this tiny little insulated ball of peace when it seems like all of reality was built out of lil biological machines screaming and killing each other so they can fuck
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So it's a mix of young adult hormones guided by the impulse control of a toddler and a psychopath's morals. It's also interesting to see how humans swapped out violence for verbal manipulation and degradation to nefariously achieve many of our same collective primate goals.
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Yep, I've long thought the best way to understand humans is the same base desires/goals of other primates, but focused into stronger predictions of behavior and verbal manipulation of people instead of relying on physical manipulation.
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what about bonobos? do they live up to their reputation?
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sorry to tell you...https://skepticink.com/incredulous/2017/10/09/bonobo-myth-demolished/ …
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But but patriarchy is bad…
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I bet it would be possible to diagnose PTSD in monkeys if they tried, and that it wouldn't be that difficult to trigger them.
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