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We're a fucken species of parasites.

19h century naturalism (which still prevails today among people who don't read too much, or think by themselves) was wrong in comparing humans to predator animals... that's totally not what we are. Even if there are predatory tendencies, they end up serving parasitic goals (military's the best example).

This why the parasites tend to be the biggest winners in human society, at any fucking scale and in any fucking milieu, no matter if you're under a theocracy, capitalist regime, oligarchy, monarchy, socialist republic...

Better be asserting this parasitic character, making it a virtue in itself, make it even a political agenda or paradigm, and fashionable life style, instead of pretending to be anything more romantic... like your fav liberal leftist hypocrite, for starters. Also the very notion of "parasitism" dissolves in the air when everything's free and open and people are just taking from nature what they need to sustain a living.

Deprivation from nature is at the roots source of the ecocide. Related to capitalism but not inherently capitalism, for how deprivation has been around for a much longer time. But it's also a lure to look far back in history, as it is also happening under your very nose and your buddies may be among those seeking to perpetuate it, for instance buying land off the countryside to transform it and raise its value, securing themselves nice "community" honeypots, building "communes", etc (things that aren't bad in themselves, tho). Eventually these unassumed parasites find ways to secure others from taking part, so instead of being just free-living, it remains, well, parasitism! You can also call that "privilege-building". By depriving or taking part in that social game of Deprivation, they are just perpetuating the same civilization of parasites.

Then there's the issue of monopolies, or the great lengths by which those who've secured these privileges will go aggressively after all those different people who are building privilege in more or less similar ways. Which often led to racially-driven massacres like the Holocaust or the Tulsa race riot. But that's another chapter. Parasites can wage war for their own dominion but that doesn't make them predators. That makes them fanatical bigots.