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You kobayashi maru the bottom game to get to the top game middle game is for clueless ofc isomorphic to sociopaths/clueless/losers
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There’s no escaping Darwin even if you eschew social Darwinism. By definition civilization is an institutionalization of what’s adaptive.
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the mistake social darwinists make is that they insist that some normative form *should* be adaptive when it's the thing that's *actually* adaptive that wins
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Special case: thinking “predator” equals “adaptive” In general prey and parasite species tend to be more adaptive in biomass fraction terms. Apex predators are often more fragile. Leopards survived human urban encroachment better than tigers in India for eg.
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