"ten millennia of precedent is a hard trend to buck"

Our species has been on the planet for what, roughly 300,000 years? 290,000 of which was spent mostly on chasing our food. By comparison our modern fumble-fucking around with political systems designed by and for a notional elite class is a blink of the eye. We've beaten worse odds.

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madaxe_again 3 days ago | parent [-]

That period was just the same shit on a smaller scale. The story is told by our genomes and by those of pathogens and parasites - again and again breeding concentrated and bottlenecked, suggesting power accumulation, and again and again entire germlines went extinct, as the old guard were violently usurped - and we’ve plenty of archaeology that shows wholesale slaughter of entire populations.

And… chimps follow the same patterns - accumulation of breeding rights to a select germline, followed by violent revolution, infanticide, all of it. We are cut from the same stuff.

	▲	forgetfreeman a day ago \| parent [-]
		You seem to be asserting that there is some kind of genetic governor on our species social development. If that's true and this is literally all we're capable of the most ethical thing to do would be to engineer a species-ending pathogen before we've completely destroyed every ecosystem on the planet. Perhaps whatever comes next will do a better job.