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The urge to prey on other humans, or to eliminate them, runs even deeper, and has been salient in extreme right, left, racial supremacist, and theocratic hellscapes.

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It has been Speculated that Humans have derived from Chimpanzees, and Bonobos... Chimpanzees are very Tribal, Territorial, and make War on each other... Bonobos are Pacifistic, and Communal... Didn't Jane Goodall at Davos say that DJT reminded her of an Alpha Chimp?

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A troupe of chimpanzees is a fission-fusion society. A chimp social system is a mother and her juvenile offspring. A human social system is an internally interdependent and externally independent group of humans, which for many thousands of generations, and until about four hundred generations ago, was exclusively a hunter-gatherer band. Today, the human social system is civilization.

"What if the beloved community is already real, and all we need to do is live as if it is?" —John Lewis

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