Survival, growth and reproduction are entirely depend upon the available resources. Variety, quantity and quality of resources are directly linked with an ability to acquire and afford them. Competition, struggle and fight for attaining acquisition capabilities and possessing the resources is an underlying, a silent and a pivotal hierarchical competition held between two or among many individuals, families, clans, groups, communities, ethnicity, countries and even the races of creatures.
Although both cooperation and compromise exist in the world and they are necessities of the society, competition fight over resources is considered as the major driving force of biological evolution, bio-diversity and increased complexity. Climbing the tall ladder or pyramid of resource allocation hierarchy has been the one of the greatest pursuits of the mankind since the time unknown. There're a lot of social, nonverbal and behavioral indicators, messages, emblems, symbols and signs inside the social class structure.
Every position in the ladder is about amount of the power and capabilities one possesses to access, control, extract, acquire, accumulate, secure, process, preserve and consume resources which can be biological, non-biological, natural or artificial. Therefore, individuals, families, groups, clans and communities of higher class work less harder, consume more, spend more, (afford to) waste a plenty, find more time for amusement,(might) stay healthy longer and accumulate more over geographical area(s).
Public display or exhibition of the social status is very common across human societies since ages. There are many different ways, methods and tools available to achieve the same. However, males are naturally motivated to display the higher social status in public with the symbolic cues or hints of their inheritance, belongings, capabilities, achievements and victories. Especially, public display or exhibition of the higher social status by males finding mate(s) or partner(s) is quite obvious in the presence a group of females. Costly and imported cars have become the moving embodiment of higher social status.
Through their body language, many females reciprocate their interest towards the males belonging to higher social status than their own. In general, most women wisely choose better financial prospects over physcial characteristics of males in the modern industrial world driven by demand and supply. Gone are the days when agile, robust, slender, athletic or muscular males used to hunt for food and fight for territory. Technology, industrial outputs and market economy seem to have outdated those primitive physcial features or qualities with the modern financial prowess.
Individuals with lower socio-economical status often try to imitate the individuals with higher socio-economical status by buying, owning, exhibiting and displaying low quality and cheap cloths, jewelry, artworks and artifacts which share external appearances with their high quality and costly counterparts. Fashion, food and lifestyle trends in higher class gradually permeates to lower classes. Once a trend no longer stays to limited to higher class, a new one is invented and adapted to convey the socio-economical status separation from lower classes.
Starting right from the clothing to the residential buildings, public display or exhibition of the social status is almost inseparable from living in almost all of the human societies. The dialect or the choice of words, the overall mannerism and the kind of treatment/hospitality given to others is also part of public display or exhibition of the social status. Occupation of space around one's body and placement of one's body in the given social situation also speak loudly about the individual's social status along with its family owned residential buildings.
In case of a family's house, factors like location, neighborhood, size, space, safety, security, amount, availability, affordability, rarity, creativity, variety, quality, quantity, hospitality, privacy and comfort nonverbally convey the socio-economical class of the family. Its size, amount of empty space around it, quality of material used for building and decorating it, amount of fortification, amount of safety and security measures, kind of availed facilities, amount and quality of furniture, amount and quality of upholstery and size of showcase are determinant factors.
Along with the same, types and number of transportation vehicles, kind of food (variety, quantity and quality), amount of food stored/preserved, number of aids and appliances, quality and quantity of clothes, number and quality of footwear, number and quality of body adornments, amount of private space reserved for every member, level of physical comfort, number of accumulated collectible items, number of pets etc. speak very clearly and loudly to others about social status of the individual family.
Competition, struggle and fight for staying on and climbing steps of the food allocation hierarchy or pyramid can be easily observed in the animal kingdom and the world of all creatures too. Various members of the same creature species and various species of creatures strive for fitting or maintaining themselves at a certain position or rank in the long food chain. It's hardwired in male brain to fit in hierarchy and fight for a better position.
Members of higher class always try to control and dominate the members of class below it. Members of the lower classes are structurally, methodologically and institutionally convinced, trained, tailored, educated, prepared, armed, styled, equipped and used by those from higher social status to serve their own best interests. Any higher class hardly makes any sacrifices whereas lower class is convinced and motivated to do the same.
If we closely study the entire human history then we'd realize that Male-dominant (patriarchal) tribes, families, clans, communities, societies, dynasties, deities, gods and religions existing almost all over the world is an outcome of the same hierarchical structure or the pyramid. Female-dominant and egalitarian tribes, families, clans, communities, societies, dynasties, deities, gods are very less in numbers.
However, unlike other creatures, a civilized, educated, technological and industrial human males (and females too) saliently struggle and compete for achieving higher level in more subtle and smart ways to ensure minimal (physical) hard-work, confrontations, clashes, combats, fights and harms. Their struggle includes education, status, economical growth, materialist possession, comfort, aesthetic attributes of their mates and opportunities for their children.
Males (and a few percent of females too) employ their power, energy, intellect and social rapport for gaining higher social status and climbing on economical ladder to seize more opportunities, acquire more resources, attract mates, pair with them, reproduce with them and also retain them.
They provide a wide pool of resources, more physical space, favorable environment, better security, good nutrition, medication, better chances of survival and better prospects to their children. Naturally, children inherit resources, possessions and social class from their own parents.
Ranks, positions, levels, order and chain of command prevail within an individual human family as well. Certain physical spaces, privileges, authorities, rights and decisions are (strictly) reserved to elders or more experienced individuals whereas other (younger) family members have to respect, obey, follow and listen to them.
Challenging, fighting, quarreling and debating with older members of family is considered a unconventional, disrespectful, punishable and nonsensical act. It's highly prevalent in orthodox, conservative, large and joint families (especially those who run businesses, own huge area of land and possess a huge amount of wealth) than the modern, small, liberal, salaried ones.
Other non-confrontational way of getting at a higher position on the social ladder is to gain the kind of skills, aptitudes, knowledge, proficiency, efficiency and expertise which make a great difference in lives of many and solve their problems. Proper education, good guidance, creativity and higher (applied) knowledge generate practical inventions, innovations, ideas, tools, machines, products, formulae, methods and processes.
They help many of us in achieving higher social status, success, fame, popularity, fortune and prosperity with a far greater efficiency and speed in comparison to (physical) hard-work, confrontation, competition, clashes, combats and fights. Additionally, modern technology, transportation, tools and machinery have made it very easy for us than our ancestors.
Basically, Explorations, Expeditions, Invasions, Conquests, (Geo-)Political Movements, Colonization, Racism, Chauvinism, Hegemony, Supremacy, Slavery, (Territorial) Domination, Migration and Technological Advancement have been originated from the necessity of finding, acquiring, possessing or claiming over (new, rare and more) resources.
Especially, where climate is very harsh, land is less fertile and resources are very less, very few in numbers, highly perishable, hard to access and their availability is uncertain; resulting competition over resources is extremely brutal. Members of local communities fight and compete really hard to acquire them from local environment. They strictly control, preserve, protect and guard them with vigilance.
The fear of extinction due to hostile environment, resource scarcity and inevitable fierce competition is deeply seated in the mind of the local people. The resulting insecurity lurks not just in their behaviors but also in their world-views, literature, traditions, folktales, legends, rituals, songs, ideas and art. It deeply influence the judicial, heirarchial, metaphyscial and organizational frameworks.
In such environments, peacefully maintaining a large amount of population and support its further proliferation is next to impossible. Therefore, most of the people are systematically preached that 'Earthly living is full of sufferings only and Life is far better after death' through a cunningly developed ideology. Indirectly, it allows the 'heavenly chosen' individuals to enjoy abundance.
To align perfectly with the best interests of the higher class and especially the 'heavenly chosen' individuals, a control mechanism is devised which silences the questioners to maintain authority and punishes rebels. Strict tribal rules permeate to every level of the mass population in which massive power is exercised through fear of instant and harsher punishments.
The religions founded in resource deprived environments hardly tolerate disobedience of 'heavenly instructions' that are drafted by cleverest human individuals only. They are symbolically, systematically and methodologically hard-coded inside the mind on mass population over generations. Also, most of the martyrs belong to lower socio-economical classes only.
On the basis of some fictional justifications and the so-called 'divine indications' or 'heavenly instructions', the well-crafted, fanatic and imperialistically 'spiritual' ideology tries to unite the followers. Millions of brain-washed, motivated, clueless, gullible, poor and naïve fighters give-up their lives to secure the best interests of a few individuals.
A strategically invented and smartly perfected geo-political ideology can boldly claim that only a certain group of followers are supreme and that's why they deserve to rule the entire globe. Such religion is based on the same ideology with the sole purpose of global domination by constantly maintaining a massive deception of originality, benignness and brilliance.
Actually, it can perfectly hide the grandest masterplan of acquiring resources from foreign lands behind a shining mask of equality, salvation, heavenly rewards or liberation from Earthly pain. It's all about subjugating and/or indirectly terrorizing the entire global population to surrender themselves and their possessions or achievements to 'rightful rulers'.
Under the cunningly maintained cover of brotherhood and equality, most members from lower classes of same group can be repeatedly preached by ideological scholars to 'sacrifice everything' for divine salvation and heavenly rewards. It's the most tantalizing mental trap created for the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning followers.
Also, there's no surprise that the members of lower socio-economical classses are encouraged to fight with the followers of other ideologies and if necessary - sacrifice themselves in an 'eternal holy war'. In reality, their 'religious sacrifice' automatically transfers the acquired resources to the members of higher socio-economical classes.
Although they're utterly illogical, vivid, colorful, alluring and graphical descriptions of paradise and its pleasures overwhelm the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning people which compels them to surrender their thinking and reasoning ability and only follow the instructions to 'enter into paradise'.
Fortunately, millions of well-educated, knowledge seeking and thinking people are continuously bombarding serious questions on authoritative religious figures and preachers of supremacist ideologies, most of whom don't at all bother about existential crisis, planet Earth, sustainability and humanity.
Supremacist ideologies stem from an elaborate strategy to claim supremacy over others without any rational or natural reasons and with the pragmatic strategy of subjugating or dominating all others who're outside the supremacist groups. Their sole aim is to indirectly claim over the massive amount of resources by depriving the others of them. Surprisingly, no other creature on this planet has done it ever before.
Exactly opposite to natural or organic competition, ongoing geo-political cold-wars among different radical, extremist, supremacist and reductionistic ideologies are further intensifying the existing competition over the remaining resources. Along with rapidly changing climate, social unrest is also growing. It is deepply rooted in degrading, polluting and depleting resources.
Additionally, rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is likely to create an entirely new geo-political hierarchy and social structures. However, huge AI data centers are consuming a large amount of fresh, potable or drinking water at present for cooling purpose while its scarcity is growing day by day.
Visionaries, scientists, historians and thinkers have been warning us about the exact same crisis since many decades or centuries. While walking on the same path of unsustaible development, we've chosen to find Earth-like habitable and resource-rich planets.
By tipping off the ecological balance through uncontrolled consumption of the natural resources of the planet Earth, we've ventured out in the outer space to continue to survive and 'extraterrestrial competition' has already begun.
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Although both cooperation and compromise exist in the world and they are necessities of the society, competition fight over resources is considered as the major driving force of biological evolution, bio-diversity and increased complexity. Climbing the tall ladder or pyramid of resource allocation hierarchy has been the one of the greatest pursuits of the mankind since the time unknown. There're a lot of social, nonverbal and behavioral indicators, messages, emblems, symbols and signs inside the social class structure.
Every position in the ladder is about amount of the power and capabilities one possesses to access, control, extract, acquire, accumulate, secure, process, preserve and consume resources which can be biological, non-biological, natural or artificial. Therefore, individuals, families, groups, clans and communities of higher class work less harder, consume more, spend more, (afford to) waste a plenty, find more time for amusement,(might) stay healthy longer and accumulate more over geographical area(s).
Public display or exhibition of the social status is very common across human societies since ages. There are many different ways, methods and tools available to achieve the same. However, males are naturally motivated to display the higher social status in public with the symbolic cues or hints of their inheritance, belongings, capabilities, achievements and victories. Especially, public display or exhibition of the higher social status by males finding mate(s) or partner(s) is quite obvious in the presence a group of females. Costly and imported cars have become the moving embodiment of higher social status.
Through their body language, many females reciprocate their interest towards the males belonging to higher social status than their own. In general, most women wisely choose better financial prospects over physcial characteristics of males in the modern industrial world driven by demand and supply. Gone are the days when agile, robust, slender, athletic or muscular males used to hunt for food and fight for territory. Technology, industrial outputs and market economy seem to have outdated those primitive physcial features or qualities with the modern financial prowess.
Individuals with lower socio-economical status often try to imitate the individuals with higher socio-economical status by buying, owning, exhibiting and displaying low quality and cheap cloths, jewelry, artworks and artifacts which share external appearances with their high quality and costly counterparts. Fashion, food and lifestyle trends in higher class gradually permeates to lower classes. Once a trend no longer stays to limited to higher class, a new one is invented and adapted to convey the socio-economical status separation from lower classes.
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| Ancient Egyptian Social Pyramid/Hierarchy |
Starting right from the clothing to the residential buildings, public display or exhibition of the social status is almost inseparable from living in almost all of the human societies. The dialect or the choice of words, the overall mannerism and the kind of treatment/hospitality given to others is also part of public display or exhibition of the social status. Occupation of space around one's body and placement of one's body in the given social situation also speak loudly about the individual's social status along with its family owned residential buildings.
In case of a family's house, factors like location, neighborhood, size, space, safety, security, amount, availability, affordability, rarity, creativity, variety, quality, quantity, hospitality, privacy and comfort nonverbally convey the socio-economical class of the family. Its size, amount of empty space around it, quality of material used for building and decorating it, amount of fortification, amount of safety and security measures, kind of availed facilities, amount and quality of furniture, amount and quality of upholstery and size of showcase are determinant factors.
Along with the same, types and number of transportation vehicles, kind of food (variety, quantity and quality), amount of food stored/preserved, number of aids and appliances, quality and quantity of clothes, number and quality of footwear, number and quality of body adornments, amount of private space reserved for every member, level of physical comfort, number of accumulated collectible items, number of pets etc. speak very clearly and loudly to others about social status of the individual family.
Competition, struggle and fight for staying on and climbing steps of the food allocation hierarchy or pyramid can be easily observed in the animal kingdom and the world of all creatures too. Various members of the same creature species and various species of creatures strive for fitting or maintaining themselves at a certain position or rank in the long food chain. It's hardwired in male brain to fit in hierarchy and fight for a better position.
Members of higher class always try to control and dominate the members of class below it. Members of the lower classes are structurally, methodologically and institutionally convinced, trained, tailored, educated, prepared, armed, styled, equipped and used by those from higher social status to serve their own best interests. Any higher class hardly makes any sacrifices whereas lower class is convinced and motivated to do the same.
If we closely study the entire human history then we'd realize that Male-dominant (patriarchal) tribes, families, clans, communities, societies, dynasties, deities, gods and religions existing almost all over the world is an outcome of the same hierarchical structure or the pyramid. Female-dominant and egalitarian tribes, families, clans, communities, societies, dynasties, deities, gods are very less in numbers.
However, unlike other creatures, a civilized, educated, technological and industrial human males (and females too) saliently struggle and compete for achieving higher level in more subtle and smart ways to ensure minimal (physical) hard-work, confrontations, clashes, combats, fights and harms. Their struggle includes education, status, economical growth, materialist possession, comfort, aesthetic attributes of their mates and opportunities for their children.
Males (and a few percent of females too) employ their power, energy, intellect and social rapport for gaining higher social status and climbing on economical ladder to seize more opportunities, acquire more resources, attract mates, pair with them, reproduce with them and also retain them.They provide a wide pool of resources, more physical space, favorable environment, better security, good nutrition, medication, better chances of survival and better prospects to their children. Naturally, children inherit resources, possessions and social class from their own parents.
Ranks, positions, levels, order and chain of command prevail within an individual human family as well. Certain physical spaces, privileges, authorities, rights and decisions are (strictly) reserved to elders or more experienced individuals whereas other (younger) family members have to respect, obey, follow and listen to them.
Challenging, fighting, quarreling and debating with older members of family is considered a unconventional, disrespectful, punishable and nonsensical act. It's highly prevalent in orthodox, conservative, large and joint families (especially those who run businesses, own huge area of land and possess a huge amount of wealth) than the modern, small, liberal, salaried ones.
Other non-confrontational way of getting at a higher position on the social ladder is to gain the kind of skills, aptitudes, knowledge, proficiency, efficiency and expertise which make a great difference in lives of many and solve their problems. Proper education, good guidance, creativity and higher (applied) knowledge generate practical inventions, innovations, ideas, tools, machines, products, formulae, methods and processes.
They help many of us in achieving higher social status, success, fame, popularity, fortune and prosperity with a far greater efficiency and speed in comparison to (physical) hard-work, confrontation, competition, clashes, combats and fights. Additionally, modern technology, transportation, tools and machinery have made it very easy for us than our ancestors.
Basically, Explorations, Expeditions, Invasions, Conquests, (Geo-)Political Movements, Colonization, Racism, Chauvinism, Hegemony, Supremacy, Slavery, (Territorial) Domination, Migration and Technological Advancement have been originated from the necessity of finding, acquiring, possessing or claiming over (new, rare and more) resources.
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Especially, where climate is very harsh, land is less fertile and resources are very less, very few in numbers, highly perishable, hard to access and their availability is uncertain; resulting competition over resources is extremely brutal. Members of local communities fight and compete really hard to acquire them from local environment. They strictly control, preserve, protect and guard them with vigilance.
The fear of extinction due to hostile environment, resource scarcity and inevitable fierce competition is deeply seated in the mind of the local people. The resulting insecurity lurks not just in their behaviors but also in their world-views, literature, traditions, folktales, legends, rituals, songs, ideas and art. It deeply influence the judicial, heirarchial, metaphyscial and organizational frameworks.
In such environments, peacefully maintaining a large amount of population and support its further proliferation is next to impossible. Therefore, most of the people are systematically preached that 'Earthly living is full of sufferings only and Life is far better after death' through a cunningly developed ideology. Indirectly, it allows the 'heavenly chosen' individuals to enjoy abundance.
To align perfectly with the best interests of the higher class and especially the 'heavenly chosen' individuals, a control mechanism is devised which silences the questioners to maintain authority and punishes rebels. Strict tribal rules permeate to every level of the mass population in which massive power is exercised through fear of instant and harsher punishments.
The religions founded in resource deprived environments hardly tolerate disobedience of 'heavenly instructions' that are drafted by cleverest human individuals only. They are symbolically, systematically and methodologically hard-coded inside the mind on mass population over generations. Also, most of the martyrs belong to lower socio-economical classes only.
On the basis of some fictional justifications and the so-called 'divine indications' or 'heavenly instructions', the well-crafted, fanatic and imperialistically 'spiritual' ideology tries to unite the followers. Millions of brain-washed, motivated, clueless, gullible, poor and naïve fighters give-up their lives to secure the best interests of a few individuals.
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| Supremacist Ideology = Resource Acquisition Strategy |
A strategically invented and smartly perfected geo-political ideology can boldly claim that only a certain group of followers are supreme and that's why they deserve to rule the entire globe. Such religion is based on the same ideology with the sole purpose of global domination by constantly maintaining a massive deception of originality, benignness and brilliance.
Actually, it can perfectly hide the grandest masterplan of acquiring resources from foreign lands behind a shining mask of equality, salvation, heavenly rewards or liberation from Earthly pain. It's all about subjugating and/or indirectly terrorizing the entire global population to surrender themselves and their possessions or achievements to 'rightful rulers'.
Under the cunningly maintained cover of brotherhood and equality, most members from lower classes of same group can be repeatedly preached by ideological scholars to 'sacrifice everything' for divine salvation and heavenly rewards. It's the most tantalizing mental trap created for the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning followers.
Also, there's no surprise that the members of lower socio-economical classses are encouraged to fight with the followers of other ideologies and if necessary - sacrifice themselves in an 'eternal holy war'. In reality, their 'religious sacrifice' automatically transfers the acquired resources to the members of higher socio-economical classes.
Although they're utterly illogical, vivid, colorful, alluring and graphical descriptions of paradise and its pleasures overwhelm the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning people which compels them to surrender their thinking and reasoning ability and only follow the instructions to 'enter into paradise'.
Fortunately, millions of well-educated, knowledge seeking and thinking people are continuously bombarding serious questions on authoritative religious figures and preachers of supremacist ideologies, most of whom don't at all bother about existential crisis, planet Earth, sustainability and humanity.
 |
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Supremacist ideologies stem from an elaborate strategy to claim supremacy over others without any rational or natural reasons and with the pragmatic strategy of subjugating or dominating all others who're outside the supremacist groups. Their sole aim is to indirectly claim over the massive amount of resources by depriving the others of them. Surprisingly, no other creature on this planet has done it ever before.
Exactly opposite to natural or organic competition, ongoing geo-political cold-wars among different radical, extremist, supremacist and reductionistic ideologies are further intensifying the existing competition over the remaining resources. Along with rapidly changing climate, social unrest is also growing. It is deepply rooted in degrading, polluting and depleting resources.
Additionally, rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is likely to create an entirely new geo-political hierarchy and social structures. However, huge AI data centers are consuming a large amount of fresh, potable or drinking water at present for cooling purpose while its scarcity is growing day by day.
Visionaries, scientists, historians and thinkers have been warning us about the exact same crisis since many decades or centuries. While walking on the same path of unsustaible development, we've chosen to find Earth-like habitable and resource-rich planets.
By tipping off the ecological balance through uncontrolled consumption of the natural resources of the planet Earth, we've ventured out in the outer space to continue to survive and 'extraterrestrial competition' has already begun.
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ReplyDeleteRigorously researched and immensely enlightening insights about human socio-political behavior
ReplyDeleteGood write up! Eye opener!
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