Competition v. Cooperation

Anthropologists generally consider the assertion here to be true.  Over most of the past +/- 200K years, humankind has fared well, largely due to its capacity to take care of its fellows.  Yes, we’ve had our tyrants over the millennia, but they have never, not a single one, gotten a death grip on the rest of us, and that’s precisely because we the people have always had the will and the capacity to stand up and fight for our rights.

The recent past, however, has drawn this into question.  What we’re experiencing here is the end game of unbridled capitalism, and just look at its most visible features.

In particular, notice that we’re incapable of preventing Big Oil and its billionaires from baking this planet.  America elected an obvious criminal conman as its 45th president. Homeless veterans are dying of treatable diseases. There is an entire political party in the U.S. dedicated to destroying the “woke,” i.e., those with any sincere concern for the well-being of others.

Cooperation is as fashionable now as the horse and buggy.