From: Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin (warrl@mail.blarg.net)
Date: Sun Mar 22 1998 - 12:36:35 MST
> From: Freespeak <f-prime@activist.com>
> During most of our evolutionary past, our ancestors
> experienced scarcity of the wherewithal to survive.
> In nature, scarcity seems to be the rule. Many of
> our ancestors starved to death.
>
> I suspect that practically every human has a very
> deep and very strong "scarcity instinct." It's
> as if we view the world through "scarcity glasses."
> Wherever we look, we see "scarcity."
Scarcity means nothing more in economics than "there isn't enough of
everything for everyone to always have all they want."
I doubt that this situation derives from our expecting it to exist.
> I call "scarcity" a meta-meme because it tends to be
> so pervasive -- we tend to see *everything* as "scarce."
> It's a toxic meta-meme.
>
> Historically, the best fighters for and defenders of
> resources ("property") tended to be the best survivors.
> So it's highly likely that most of us have a very
> strong and very deep "instinct" to fight for and over
> "property." It also tends to be pervasive -- we tend
> to see the world as pieces of "property" to fight for
> or over.
>
> Fighting for/over "property" is likewise a toxic
> meta-meme.
>
> These two meta-memes probably combine with the
> "property" meme to form a deep peme best called
> "scarcity-property-fight."
Into your considerations here, please factor in two other pre-human,
um, concepts:
(1) if using it will benefit me, use it
(2) don't foul your own nest.
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