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[sophiaserpentia]

An "idle thought" inspired by the conversion on my recent entries about pleasure restriction.

Human civilization is only possible because we are predators.

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

No, it's more fundamental than that. Civilization is a sublimated form of predation. The mindset that caused us to create structured societies is descended from the mental acuity that allows us to divide the world into predators and prey. Civilization -- in a scarcity situation -- depends on exploitation and social stratification.