Appendix 2: Human Nature
Greed Is Not Human Nature – It’s Human Conditioning
by Wyatt E Jones
https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/greed-is-not-human-nature-its-human-conditioning/
Many claims about human nature have been trotted out in defense of the idea that we must be managed or controlled by some higher authority (God, state, rule of law, capital, "the market", so-called "democracy") because we are inevitably violent and selfish, perpetually prone to being oppressed by the ever-present potential tyrants among us, condemned to reproduce hierarchy forever everywhere.
To dispel these non-innocent narratives, here are some HeavenlyPossum (npub1s02…zz9t) threads that are bursting at the seams with history, archeology and anthropology:
On Anarchism and Leadership
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113103845709064779
A survey of some of the ways in which people sustain egalitarian societies against would-be tyrants.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111290743792188200
Neither violent conflict nor peaceful cooperation are inevitable products of human nature, but rather deliberate social choices we can make.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111025312476874870
On the social construction of altruism and egoism.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111466874348514976
An exploration of some of the ways non-state societies deter power-seeking and aggression.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110683095773219652
The state is not necessary for preventing violent aggression, such as murder, and indeed may be worse for that purpose than its absence.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111198577601193102
“Tribal” societies were often more civilized than capitalist modernity is.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110916353874829458
Do people really like living under state rule?
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110685130975554822
Some introductory thoughts on the state, hierarchy, and statelessness.
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111053356612723637
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"content": "Appendix 2: Human Nature\n\nGreed Is Not Human Nature – It’s Human Conditioning \nby Wyatt E Jones\nhttps://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/greed-is-not-human-nature-its-human-conditioning/\n\nMany claims about human nature have been trotted out in defense of the idea that we must be managed or controlled by some higher authority (God, state, rule of law, capital, \"the market\", so-called \"democracy\") because we are inevitably violent and selfish, perpetually prone to being oppressed by the ever-present potential tyrants among us, condemned to reproduce hierarchy forever everywhere.\n\nTo dispel these non-innocent narratives, here are some nostr:npub1s029r5gtznh06wkxnae2yud5rps7c2ny9re68xakczxfh9w3pfysfrzz9t threads that are bursting at the seams with history, archeology and anthropology:\n\nOn Anarchism and Leadership\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/113103845709064779\n\nA survey of some of the ways in which people sustain egalitarian societies against would-be tyrants.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111290743792188200\n\nNeither violent conflict nor peaceful cooperation are inevitable products of human nature, but rather deliberate social choices we can make.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111025312476874870\n\nOn the social construction of altruism and egoism.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111466874348514976\n\nAn exploration of some of the ways non-state societies deter power-seeking and aggression.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110683095773219652\n\nThe state is not necessary for preventing violent aggression, such as murder, and indeed may be worse for that purpose than its absence.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111198577601193102\n\n“Tribal” societies were often more civilized than capitalist modernity is.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110916353874829458\n\nDo people really like living under state rule?\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110685130975554822\n\nSome introductory thoughts on the state, hierarchy, and statelessness.\nhttps://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111053356612723637",
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