Survival: Choas and Scarcity.

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I like wild animal documentaries because I enjoy watching survival games. Aside from our superior comprehensive capabilities, sophistication, and brilliance.

I believe we are primarily meant to be higher animals, and the reason we frequently draw the line rather than slipping into disorganization and chaos is that we seek ways to avoid being caught up in survival games.

In the forest, you will see larger snakes feeding on smaller ones, animal species feeding on their offspring, and the lack of empathy that you see when animals compete for survival.

In human society, we try not to target the small, disabled, sick, or depraved. However, being one of these makes you a prime target in the animal kingdom.

However, there are those who choose to be racist and mock people who are disabled, poor, or depraved, but most of the time, we advocate against these behaviors, despite the fact that we cannot completely eradicate human behaviors that are harmful.

We attribute greed & disloyalty to survival behaviors

As a person, it is easy to succumb to temptations. For example, we may be tempted to be disloyal, greedy, and wicked, but we can sometimes control ourselves, which is what distinguishes us as humans: the ability to distinguish between what is good and bad.

In reality, being good pays, but so does being bad.

For example, lying against a coworker so that when they are fired, you can take their position and automatically increase your salary is a terrible thing to do, but it increases your salary, you live a better life, and make more money.

However, we would rarely do this because we have the gift of conscience. Also, we may suffer as a result of our decision to be good people, because being good does not always pay. It contradicts the very concept of having a conscience, but this is why we are so superior.

However, there are those who have completely killed their conscience and prospered, making a lot of money from the suffering of others, demonstrating that while we may have a conscience, we also have the ability to kill it and become animals out of greed.

However, most of the time, animalistic behavior stems from a desire to survive, a scarcity of resources, and competition with others.

Lack breeds Chaos

When there is a lack of something, there is choas, and chaos breeds fear, greed, and disloyalty.

Most of the time, when people are pushed to the wall, they will exhibit pungent attitudes; this is not their inherent nature; it is simply the type of attitude that people pick up while trying to survive.

Squid game, for example, is a classic television show that demonstrates how survival games can cause people to exhibit strange and unnatural behaviors.

This is how people can become friends, make memories, and then one person betrays the other in order to gain an advantage over them, especially when there is a perception that resources are scarce.

In reality, when people need to truly survive and their lives are on the line, friendship and loyalty are frequently destroyed, and animalistic tendencies emerge.

Conclusion

These people may not have always behaved the way they do now. This means that we, as humans, tend to be vessels, changing our behaviors and characteristics to suit the time and season.

However, we are capable of driving innovations that eliminate scarcity, but we are occasionally driven back to that situation. Take a look at the crypto market right now; it is chaotic, and emotions are high.

Dumps and corrections are causing people to say and behave in ways they would not normally do because this is the season of making or breaking. Unfortunately, the belief that the market will finally deviate from the standard four-year cycle is fueling a lot of choas, pain and greed.



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you are right man, every one is good until we find ourselves in a situation in a situation that it is either our life or theirs... Those tv shows, when I see some people betray others and people criticise them for doing it, I just know it is because they are not in their shoes cos if they were, they would do the same, our first instinct is to protect ourself no matter what, unconsciously or consciously

Exactly the first instinct is to protect one self. I use to think if anything happened to Nigeria, maybe a plague or an illness that wipes away civilization, then this is when our true nature comes out because anyone will go to the extreme just to survive

Let it be abundance then! I wonder what new forms will abundance take, and if it will be enough, because we have experienced various forms of abundance (in communications, music, film, storage capacity, speed of processors, access to information, etc.), and we still exhibit the same scarcity-based reactions.

...and we still exhibit the same scarcity-based reactions.

Yes even in abundance. I think the reason is that there are people who generally thrives with creating scarcity even in the middle of abundance. So generally we will always fight for the lion share of something. Some people want to have more than the others and this automatically creates some forms of artificial scarcity even when there isn't.

Regarding what you said about the crypto market, I believe that until this market becomes even bigger, we will always see big price changes. !STRIDE

Yes, I agree as well.

The four year cycle is something that I think will change over time. I think it was bound to happen. I agree that the time and situation determines a lot of different things. It's not what people would like but depending on the situation, people do different things.

Yeah, I agree it might change (the four year cycle) to either shorter or longer, but I don't think it'll happen any time soon. A lot will need to happen to disrupt the cycle.

These people may not have always behaved the way they do now. This means that we, as humans, tend to be vessels, changing our behaviors and characteristics to suit the time and season.

I definitely agree. People can think irrationally at times of survival mode. They say, the only time you can truly know someone is thru adversity and hardships because by then, their true colors of greed would start to show.

This is true. Survival mode is unpredictable and people can do different things just to survive. I believe the world is moving away from that level, but a huge catastrophe can cause people to be in survival mode

We always have the ability to do a 180 from our values or principles whenever life pushes us to the extreme. As a last resort, it could be the fighting chance we need to keep playing the game. I just hope that we don't stay at that position when the tides shift back to better times.