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[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

"Ed Wilson"

More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Lions are eusocial

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Sounds like propaganda tbh

[+] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.

That didn't work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?

It's more accurate to say that the average person doesn't desire a power structure but merely tolerates it so long as it provides them with some benefit. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Its been pretty oppressive for a while now - c'mon America, wake up...

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lol, it's pseudoscientific propaganda. Don't pretend Wilson isn't controversial

Also, I ain't your pal, buddy!

Edit: I made this for you https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49396386

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

In what world do people who have more power have it based on biology? You think trump is some biological specimen to get into power? Or is it the societal structure we created that allowed him to rise to power?

The hierarchical structure of humans is some literal right winger shit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is absolute propaganda. Early human societies didn't work like that. Hunter-gatherers didn't work like that.

This is yet another "brutal selfish liberalism is hUmAn nAtUrE!!1!1!!1!" shit that was disproven in 1800s.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Not the anarchists

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

My ex would say, "that rules like anarchy." Cute.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of 'hierarchical pecking order'. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Never meet your heroes, huh?

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