Have you ever considered that nature selects psychopaths? That “survival of the fittest” leads to the perpetuation of psychopathic genes? Humans or animals or plants who are the most ruthless tend to survive. “Nice“ animals do not survive but the most ruthless and selfish do. The same applies for humans.
Hence Why so many humans are so selfish and greedy and ruthless. Nature selects for those attributes. Just take a look at those two video clips below. There’s many more like it but life in the animal world is brutal. Seems like nature selects for the biggest assholes.
Two Random But Poignant Nature Clips I Watched Recently
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hmmm, I would have picked corvids to focus on if it was me, most intelligent birds on the planet and most ruthless, take Cardinals, they love to dominate a feeding spot and will drive off other less aggressive birds. Cardinals are in season here, I like to encourage them. Blue jays are no slouch mind you, close relatives of the cardinals. We get them too.
I agree with your assessment, nature does seem to select for a certain ruthlessness and intelligence. Thank God for that, we need smart birds, to balance out the rodent population. See, it all works together, the birds hunt the rodents, the rodents hunt the insects, the insects keep the micro organisms in check. You take out one species the whole food web collapses. I feed the small birds because the bigger birds have to eat.
I still wonder what happened to the several real psychopaths that I’ve met. Two of them I left in an asylum that closed, and the other I left at a company that I left many years ago. Rat kings is a term I’ve started calling them, they’re incredibly charismatic when they want to be, but also capable of immense damage if left unchecked.
I might have run into one last year, but she didn’t have the ambition you usually see with a true rat king. A true rat king wants to conquer and spread misery, it’s something to behold. I mean, take away my kindness, and I have to admire the raw ambition. When you meet a true rat king, they’ll either have or be about to leave a huge crater in their wake. It takes a deeply damaged individual to lack the sensitivity towards others to be capable of that, and you have to combine it with years of hard work climbing the corporate ladder and intelligence.
I don’t know if I want to hunt rat kings anymore, to be honest. I don’t know how I got the gig last time. It’s just something I know about, because like I said I’ve met a few. They succeed very well in the corporate world. Capitalism is their incubator. They know how to be transactional.
Sadly, money will eventually stop being enough, or there will eventually not be enough money. You can’t feed a hunger that can never be filled. That sort of person doesn’t know how to be satisfied. That’s what is wrong with their brains, and their hearts. When they find that out, they leave horrible wreckage behind them.
Like I said; rat kings, they’ll always leave a crater behind them. Someone has to stop them, and I gave up that job. Society needs to get better at identifying and preventing the damage, it’s just the way things are.
The reality of (animal or human) nature usually is not so great for one’s mental health. That’s why many programs omit certain parts.
but everyone is living with their head in the sands. some know but refuse to acknowledge it. most prefer not to know. and the rest are too ignorant to know.
for the people who do know, like us depressives, all it does is show us how sick and twisted the world is, not just humans but all life forms on earth. like that bird was just hatched and it knew to kill the other 2 birds before it could hatch. like how evil is that? and yes, they are sentient creatures. birds are actually really smart, like crows (lots of scientific studies and experiments testing the intelligence of birds), so they’re not idiot bird brains who don’t know what they’re doing.
anyhow, all of humanity and life forms on earth are evil. in order to survive, they all need to kill their competition. and for humans? well the ones that knock down other humans are the ones that become high paid Politicians, CEOs, VPs, Presidents, Executives, Lawyers, Drs, etc. I have yet to see a very rich but truly kind and benevolent person.
Even low-level success- ie 200K+/yr- tends to be full of dickwads.
i am sick of how terrible humans are.
i am sick of how terrible nature is too.
we are put into a system where the “strong” aka Assholes, gobble up the weak, or “nice” people.
Why give a shit about animals. Look no further than the most powerful men on the planet: Trump. Putin, Hitler. Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un. Going all the way back to Napoleon, Caesar, Ramses, what do they all have in common? They’re fucking psychos with no compunction about inflicting horrific suffering, and guess what. They are the strongest, the most impactful and by all external observation the “greatest” of our species. This will never change, so we need to either get used to it or quit the game. I’m all for the latter.