Survival, security, growth, health and reproduction of any living creature, animal or organism is dependent upon the resources available to it. (The only reason why you're able to read this article at the this very moment is the necessary resources available to you to do the same. Right?) Competition, struggle and fight for attaining and retaining the capabilities to acquire, control, retain, process and preserve the necessary resources is an ongoing hierarchical competition. It can silently and naturally take place between two or among many different human individuals, families, clans, groups, communities, ethnicity, countries and even the whole species of creatures.
Both cooperation and compromise exist in the whole world as the core necessity of peaceful cohabitation. However, competition or 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. Nonverbal and behavioral indicators, messages, emblems, symbols and signs hidden inside the socio-economic hierarchical structure are enormous.
Every position in the ladder is about the amount of 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, exhibition or show-off of the socio-economic status is very common across human societies since ages. There are many different ways, methods and mediums available to achieve the same. However, males are naturally motivated to display the higher socio-economic status in public with the symbolic cues or hints of their inheritance, belongings, capabilities, achievements and victories. Especially, display or exhibition of the higher socio-economic status by males seeking mate(s) or partner(s) is quite obvious in the presence of females.
Machines, factories and mass availablity of resources in the market seem to have replaced the athletic capability, physical strenght and muscular power with the financial prowess, at least in the techno-industrial world. In general, most women strategically prefer the strong socio-economic aspects of the males, in the modern techno-industrial societies. Through their body language and overall behavior, most females do convey their interest towards the males belonging to higher socio-economic status than their own.
Gone are the days when agile, robust, slender, athletic or muscular males used to hunt for food and fight for territory. Individuals with lower socio-economic status often try to imitate the individuals with higher socio-economic 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 the higher classes gradually permeates to lower classes.
Starting right from the clothing to the residential buildings, public display or exhibition of the socio-economic status is prevalent, cross-culturally, in almost every human society. 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 socio-economic 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 socio-economic 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-economic 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 socio-economic 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 the male's brain to fit in the hierarchy and most males continuously fight for a better position.
Members from higher socio-economical class always try to control and dominate the members of classes below them. Members of the lower socio-economical classes are structurally, methodologically and institutionally convinced, trained, tailored, educated, prepared, armed, styled, equipped and used by those from higher socio-economic 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 and technological human males (and females too) saliently do struggle and compete for achieving a 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 socio-economic 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 do inherit the resources, possessions and socio-economic status from their own parents.
Ranks, positions, levels, order and 'the chain of command' do prevail within an single 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/or 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 socio-economic 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 socio-economic 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.
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 the local communities fight and compete among themselves to control resources in the 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 minds of the local people. The resulting insecurity lurks not just in their normal behaviors but also in their world-views, literature, traditions, folktales, legends, rituals, songs, ideas and art. It deeply influences their legal, judicial, hierarchical and organizational frameworks.
In such environments, peacefully maintaining a large amount of population and support its further growth 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 few 'heavenly chosen' individuals to enjoy the abundance.
To perfectly align with the best interests of the members of higher socio-economical classes and especially the 'heavenly chosen' individuals, a control mechanism is devised that silences the questioners to maintain authority and punishes the rebels. The massive amount of power is tightly maintained through the constant threat or terror of instant and harsher punishments.
The religions founded in the resource deprived environments hardly tolerate disobedience of 'heavenly instructions' that are drafted by the cleverest human individuals only. They are symbolically, systematically and methodologically hard-coded inside the mind of population over generations. Also, the majority of 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 while securing 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 superior to others and that's why they deserve to rule the entire globe. A geo-political movement, wisely wrapped under the cover of a religion, can be founded on the exact same ideology with the sole purpose of the total global domination, by constantly maintaining the super-massive deception of originality, superiority, beingness and brilliance.
Actually, it can perfectly hide the grandest masterplan of acquiring the resources from remote/foreign lands, right behind the brilliantly shining mask of equality, salvation, heavenly rewards or the liberation from eternal Earthly agony. It's all about subjugating and/or indirectly terrorizing the people to surrender themselves and their possessions or achievements willfully to 'the rightful rulers' or 'the rightful successors'.
Under the cunningly maintained cover of brotherhood and equality, the members belonging to lower socio-economical classes of the same group can be repeatedly preached by the ideological master-minds to 'sacrifice everything' for divine salvation and heavenly rewards. It's the most deceptive psychological trap, specially created for the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning followers.
Also, there's no surprise that the members of the lower socio-economical classes are encouraged to fight with the followers of other opposing or competing ideologies and if necessary - willfully sacrifice themselves in the '(eternal) holy war'. Actually, their 'religious sacrifice' or martyrdom automatically hand overs the conquered resources to the members of the upper socio-economical classes.
Although they're utterly illogical and unrealistic, vivid, alluring and extravagantly graphical descriptions of paradise and its promised pleasures overwhelm the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning people. So, it subconsciously motivates them to simply surrender their critical thinking and reasoning ability and follow the instructions to 'enter into paradise'.
Fortunately, millions of well-educated, reasoning, investigating and critically thinking people are continuously bombarding the serious questions on the authoritative religious figures and preachers of the supremacist ideologies, most of whom really don't at all care about the existential crises, planet Earth, sustainability and even HUMANITY in the first place.
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 those don't belong to the supremacist groups. Their sole aim is to indirectly claim over the massive amount of resources, while strategically depriving others of them. Surprisingly, no other species of creature, animal or organism of this planet might have done the same.
Technological Advancement, (Territorial) Domination, (Geo-)Political Movement, Supremacist Ideology, Fundamentalism, Colonization, Imperialism, Subjugation, Narcissism, Radicalism, Exploration, Expedition, Tribalism, Hegemony, Nepotism, Migration, Invasion, Conquest and Racism are directly or indirectly related with finding, acquiring, protecting, competing for and/or controlling the resources (available in the given environment).
Exactly opposite to natural or organic competition, ongoing geo-political cold-wars among the 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 deeply rooted in the degrading, polluting and depleting resources.
Additionally, development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is most likely to create an entirely new geo-political hierarchy and socio-economic structures. However, massive Artificial Intelligence (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, psychics, foreseers, futurists, scientists, thinkers and experts have been warning us about the exact same crisis, since many decades or centuries. While walking on the exact same path of unsustainable development, some of us already chosen to find the Earth-like habitable and resource-rich planets.
After tipping off the ecological balance through the uncontrolled consumption of Earth's natural resources, we've ventured in the outer space for continuing to survive beyond Earth. Without any doubt, the 'extraterrestrial competition' has already begun.
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Both cooperation and compromise exist in the whole world as the core necessity of peaceful cohabitation. However, competition or 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. Nonverbal and behavioral indicators, messages, emblems, symbols and signs hidden inside the socio-economic hierarchical structure are enormous.
Every position in the ladder is about the amount of 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).
"Additionally, development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is most likely to create an entirely new geo-political hierarchy and socio-economic structures."
Public display, exhibition or show-off of the socio-economic status is very common across human societies since ages. There are many different ways, methods and mediums available to achieve the same. However, males are naturally motivated to display the higher socio-economic status in public with the symbolic cues or hints of their inheritance, belongings, capabilities, achievements and victories. Especially, display or exhibition of the higher socio-economic status by males seeking mate(s) or partner(s) is quite obvious in the presence of females.
Machines, factories and mass availablity of resources in the market seem to have replaced the athletic capability, physical strenght and muscular power with the financial prowess, at least in the techno-industrial world. In general, most women strategically prefer the strong socio-economic aspects of the males, in the modern techno-industrial societies. Through their body language and overall behavior, most females do convey their interest towards the males belonging to higher socio-economic status than their own.
Gone are the days when agile, robust, slender, athletic or muscular males used to hunt for food and fight for territory. Individuals with lower socio-economic status often try to imitate the individuals with higher socio-economic 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 the higher classes gradually permeates to 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 socio-economic status is prevalent, cross-culturally, in almost every human society. 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 socio-economic 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 socio-economic 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-economic 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 socio-economic status of the individual family.
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| The interior of a house |
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 the male's brain to fit in the hierarchy and most males continuously fight for a better position.
Members from higher socio-economical class always try to control and dominate the members of classes below them. Members of the lower socio-economical classes are structurally, methodologically and institutionally convinced, trained, tailored, educated, prepared, armed, styled, equipped and used by those from higher socio-economic 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 and technological human males (and females too) saliently do struggle and compete for achieving a 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 socio-economic 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 do inherit the resources, possessions and socio-economic status from their own parents.
Ranks, positions, levels, order and 'the chain of command' do prevail within an single 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/or 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 socio-economic 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 socio-economic 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.
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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 the local communities fight and compete among themselves to control resources in the 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 minds of the local people. The resulting insecurity lurks not just in their normal behaviors but also in their world-views, literature, traditions, folktales, legends, rituals, songs, ideas and art. It deeply influences their legal, judicial, hierarchical and organizational frameworks.
In such environments, peacefully maintaining a large amount of population and support its further growth 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 few 'heavenly chosen' individuals to enjoy the abundance.
To perfectly align with the best interests of the members of higher socio-economical classes and especially the 'heavenly chosen' individuals, a control mechanism is devised that silences the questioners to maintain authority and punishes the rebels. The massive amount of power is tightly maintained through the constant threat or terror of instant and harsher punishments.
The religions founded in the resource deprived environments hardly tolerate disobedience of 'heavenly instructions' that are drafted by the cleverest human individuals only. They are symbolically, systematically and methodologically hard-coded inside the mind of population over generations. Also, the majority of 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 while securing 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 superior to others and that's why they deserve to rule the entire globe. A geo-political movement, wisely wrapped under the cover of a religion, can be founded on the exact same ideology with the sole purpose of the total global domination, by constantly maintaining the super-massive deception of originality, superiority, beingness and brilliance.
Actually, it can perfectly hide the grandest masterplan of acquiring the resources from remote/foreign lands, right behind the brilliantly shining mask of equality, salvation, heavenly rewards or the liberation from eternal Earthly agony. It's all about subjugating and/or indirectly terrorizing the people to surrender themselves and their possessions or achievements willfully to 'the rightful rulers' or 'the rightful successors'.
Under the cunningly maintained cover of brotherhood and equality, the members belonging to lower socio-economical classes of the same group can be repeatedly preached by the ideological master-minds to 'sacrifice everything' for divine salvation and heavenly rewards. It's the most deceptive psychological trap, specially created for the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning followers.
Also, there's no surprise that the members of the lower socio-economical classes are encouraged to fight with the followers of other opposing or competing ideologies and if necessary - willfully sacrifice themselves in the '(eternal) holy war'. Actually, their 'religious sacrifice' or martyrdom automatically hand overs the conquered resources to the members of the upper socio-economical classes.
Although they're utterly illogical and unrealistic, vivid, alluring and extravagantly graphical descriptions of paradise and its promised pleasures overwhelm the poor, naïve, clueless, deprived and unquestioning people. So, it subconsciously motivates them to simply surrender their critical thinking and reasoning ability and follow the instructions to 'enter into paradise'.
Fortunately, millions of well-educated, reasoning, investigating and critically thinking people are continuously bombarding the serious questions on the authoritative religious figures and preachers of the supremacist ideologies, most of whom really don't at all care about the existential crises, planet Earth, sustainability and even HUMANITY in the first place.
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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 those don't belong to the supremacist groups. Their sole aim is to indirectly claim over the massive amount of resources, while strategically depriving others of them. Surprisingly, no other species of creature, animal or organism of this planet might have done the same.
Technological Advancement, (Territorial) Domination, (Geo-)Political Movement, Supremacist Ideology, Fundamentalism, Colonization, Imperialism, Subjugation, Narcissism, Radicalism, Exploration, Expedition, Tribalism, Hegemony, Nepotism, Migration, Invasion, Conquest and Racism are directly or indirectly related with finding, acquiring, protecting, competing for and/or controlling the resources (available in the given environment).
Exactly opposite to natural or organic competition, ongoing geo-political cold-wars among the 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 deeply rooted in the degrading, polluting and depleting resources.
Additionally, development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is most likely to create an entirely new geo-political hierarchy and socio-economic structures. However, massive Artificial Intelligence (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, psychics, foreseers, futurists, scientists, thinkers and experts have been warning us about the exact same crisis, since many decades or centuries. While walking on the exact same path of unsustainable development, some of us already chosen to find the Earth-like habitable and resource-rich planets.
After tipping off the ecological balance through the uncontrolled consumption of Earth's natural resources, we've ventured in the outer space for continuing to survive beyond Earth. Without any doubt, the 'extraterrestrial competition' has already begun.
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| Extraterrestrial (ET) Aliens invading planet Earth only for acquiring the available resources isn't a fictional threat anymore at all. |
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ReplyDeleteRigorously researched and immensely enlightening insights about human socio-political behavior
ReplyDeleteGood write up! Eye opener!
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