I understand that it's hard for you to keep a tether to reality, but being deeply emotional invested in a particular narrative doesn't make it true or real, no matter how much you scream about it and froth at the mouth. Perhaps it's due to your fierce levels of misandry, because only someone who hates men could believe that they are "naturally" violent, abusive, rapists who can't seem to function without trying to dominate and kill each other and everyone around them. Again, this wasn't a common occurrence until about 5k years ago - and still isn't common in some cultures, but it’s very common in our culture where men are encouraged to be dominant, aggressive, and solve their problems through violence. Consequently, 90%+ of all violence is committed by men — quite often against each other — but also against women and children.
The Smithsonian says that the first war only took place 10k years ago, and even that was more of a small-scale massacre rather than an actual war. Most violence has taken place in the past few thousand years, with the rise of patriarchy. What were all those naturally violent men doing for the 300k years before that? Mostly they were playing with their kids, inventing musical instruments, and honing their skills as story tellers and tool makers and enjoy all their free time because hunters and gatherers don't have to work that hard. They were solving disputes, discouraging non-cooperative behavior and generally engaging in pro-social behaviors.
https://petergray.substack.com/p/why-hunter-gatherers-work-was-play
"One anthropologist, Marshall Sahlins (1972), famously characterized hunter-gatherer societies collectively as “the original affluent society.” An affluent society, by Sahlins’s definition, is one in which “people’s material wants are easily satisfied.” Hunter-gatherers were affluent not because they had so much, but because they wanted so little. They could provide for those wants with relatively little work, and, as a result, had lots of free time, which they spent, according to one observer of the Ju/’hoansi (Shostak, 1981), at such activities as “singing and composing songs, playing musical instruments, sewing intricate bead designs, telling stories, playing games, visiting, or just lying around and resting.” These are just the kinds of activities we would expect of happy, relaxed people anywhere."
https://theecologist.org/2006/sep/22/humanitys-worst-invention-agriculture
Even in a harsh desert environment such as this, the Hobbesian conception of the life of pre-civilised humanity as being nasty and brutish could hardly be further from the truth. Hunter-gatherers live healthy lives of plenty, and have been quite rightly described as the ‘original affluent society’. Unfortunately, the myth of the ‘war of all against all’, and the savage, condemned to a life struggling with nature red in tooth and claw, is still deeply ingrained in the civilised psyche.
The relatively limited and unvaried diet of the agriculturalist causes further problems, since the immune systems fed on an unvaried agricultural diet do not function as well as do those of hunter-gathers, who eat a much wider variety of foods. Such an unhealthy lifestyle inevitably shortens the lifespan of the agriculturalist, and it is only in the last 100 years that medicine has raised the lifespan of agriculturalists back up to that of the hunter-gatherer.
And, as already noted, only about 5% of arrests in the US are for violent crimes and only a small percentage of violent crimes are ever solved. The police are not actually holding society together in any meaningful way.
Telling me what I know and don't know and what I care about and don't care about is indicative of not being capable of good faith discussion, so I'm done interacting with you. There's no trying to talk sense to someone as emotionally worked up as you are anyhow.
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