I've been thinking about how socialist people have been acting during the pandemic. It's been vaguely socialist. I've also been thinking about how a jaw of a human was found a while ago. This jaw was of a 40 year old male and only had one tooth. Evidence revealed that he managed to survive in that state for a while. It's likely that he had help. In a time when humans were at their most stupid humans were capable of assisting others. Perhaps it was because he was otherwise useful. Perhaps it was kindness. Either way, helping the less fortunate was something that existed.

For the majority of our existence as a species plagues and disasters were not something that happened sometimes. They were just part of life. If kindness existed in the darkest age of our history then there is no reason why it shouldn't exist now. Kindness isn't a problem to be solved. It is an asset that needs to be embraced.

Perhaps capitalism, the same capitalism that we have had for this short time now, isn't the answer. Maybe the familial communal way of life is the way we are meant to live. The way we evolved to live.

We are well within our rights as humans to try to build and be better as a species, to practice medicine and augmentation, to write our histories and our stories, but kindness is something that doesn't need to be cured. It's something that needs to be enhanced with all of our knowledge and our wisdom.

@Liberonscien capitalist and consumerist culture emphasizes some aspects of human nature (greed, competition, individualism, ... ) to justify itself, while letting us forget about other aspects that could also dominate if talked about more

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