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The Science Behind Relationships; Humans Media explores the basis of our attraction, contempt, why we do what we do and to whom we do it.
"Come Back to reality". Content Warning.
Once upon a time humans lived and died happy. Despite the challenges of requiring hunting and gathering to eat and survive their workload was quite light and the majority of their time was spent frivolously socialising, playing, and exploring the vastness of Gods green and spectacular earth full of rivers, streams, beaches, mountains, tundra, forests and cities? no, no cities, no mental health struggles, every type of individual had a purpose and place within the tribe... At some point agriculture was invented and things begun to escalate but people once gave freely as the earth gave freely and provided them with food and water that was clean and not too difficult to attain. Sharing was the norm as every member of the tribe was valued.. Elders shared wisdom, guided, and taught. Young men hunted, young women gathered happily. Everyone could do all jobs, but certain people were more specialised... The modern-day schizophrenic would have thrived as a spiritual guide, the psychopath thrived as a hunter and warrior. Depression as a permanent disorder hadn't come about yet. Certain plants were loosely agriculturally utilised and there was a respect for nature and the land that gave freely in a symbiotic manner. The spiritual teachers kept the psychopaths from possessing the land or each other, the psychopaths kept the tribe strong athletic and safe from predators, and the tribe stabilised and looked after the spiritual teachers and learnt from them and adopted their visions and truths as their own.. Someone had an idea that food could be grown, controlled, harnessed, and ensured during some times of scarcity due to environmental factors.. Slowly but surely the psychopaths and alike found themselves more adept at the ability to organise and control the farming process, distribution, and resources and fed off the spiritual leaders for solutions to the problems this had caused. People became much more dependent on the psychopaths who had steadily depleted the natural abundance of the earth and controlled the food and used it to labour the tribes people... They found that by keeping people dependent enough to work for them, for just enough to survive from food and spare time, they could maintain an exponential growth that made sure that the increased amount of workers required to feed the children, that would become more workers, that would produce more children and so on, they would never go hungry and they could have luxuries such as protection from predators and abundances of mating opportunities.. This continued for a considerable amount of time before the psychopath's unquenchable thirst to tame the land, the people, the minerals, then the rivers, the animals, the spiritual leaders they eventually in their impulsive hubris decided to make even then earth itself work for them. Once the what they once thought was endless land became crowded and populated and the control and harnessing of all the previously mentioned became more difficult and resources were spread thin, the metals and ores and coal and humans became factories and factory workers... they had also invented this thing called money some time back which was initially used as a placeholder during scarcity for trading to signify using a "note" that someone owed you something particularly with seasonal foods etc.
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