Researchers showed that male chimps who had bananas had about 20x more sex than chimps that didnt have em. In short the female chimps put out for food, even if they were well fed. Trading sex for food truly was the first profession.
The male chimps would fight, steal, threaten, bully and murder to get more bananas, and tribal status stopped others from trying to steal from them. Chimps will also form gangs and go off to war against other chimp tribes, even commiting canabalism in their quest for food, status, and ultimately sex.
Pretty much all human behavior is easily broken down to this… get more bananas! Everything else is just an excuse for the primary goal. So we can talk about religion, love, politics, philosophy, etc, but none of that really matters, its all about the bananas.
Dont even get me started on the damn bonobos…
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True, I was thinking about the question of money, obviously in this society, we all need it to survive. But I recall reading futurists and also from shows like Star Trek, they envision humanity will move into a post-monetary utopia (though ST has ‘credits’).
I figured if we became energy independent and if robots could do nearly all the work for us, all we’d need to do is maintain them or have other machines do that, then we wouldn’t really need money.
Except we’d still need doctors, teachers, and engineers to keep society going. It’d be great if we could end the rat-race but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. So long as there is wealth and power, people will keep fighting for it.
*and Latinum 🙂
World hit peak oil in 2006, humans start going extinct in 2030.
https://youtu.be/FCEOfZV1OaU
Interesting vid, though I think hydrogen and ammonia will likely replace fossil fuels. Also real battery breakthroughs are occurring so eventually all cars will be electric and provide the same or greater range than gasoline. Fusion energy is close to reaching viability esp with the advance of superconductors and other technologies.
Additionally compact nuclear reactors may increase in popularity in time. So eventually we’ll move away from fossil fuels once these other sources of energy become mainstream. Besides there’s a lot of money to be made with replacing oil/gas so it will happen without a doubt.
To some degree, that is a large part of human life — albeit, illustrated here by a very simplistic (un-cited) depiction — but then one must also ask themselves if they are so simple in their mind and character as a man or woman that they would be envious of monkeys fucking for bananas.
Personally, I am not especially impressed by popular depictions of “attractive’ individuals; moreover, I have enough hubris to deny having such a minuscule awareness of my own personhood as to ascribe to myself the sole purpose in life of thrusting my hips forward and back or prescribe to any other individual this activity as a guiding principal in existential questions.
Beyond that, who are you to say what really matters to me? And why am i expected to care about the apparent view of billions of human being who have their own personal ideas about life and, at any rate, have nothing to do with me?
I haven’t read the study but, as with almost all animal psychology experiments, I immediately see the flaw.
If the correlation is more bananas = more sex, how do they suddenly arrive at the non sequitur that females monkeys are prostitutes? Let’s think rationally; isn’t this scenario highly more probable…
All organisms cluster around food sources. Monkeys, both male and female, cluster around the monkeys who have the bananas. This gives the banana monkeys more opportunity to socialize and/or rape the sht out of the females. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.