I’m talking about the fight/fuck/dominate hormones. Testosterone, estrogen. The reason why putting a pretty girl in an advertisement works so well. And it might explain a lot of aggression too.
Take them out of the equation and that’s 99% of politics, advertising and popular music gone.
So what would that look like for society?
Would it be Star Trek? Would it be a dystopia?
What about the individual??
Flat effect no ambition misery? Or creative powerhouse and visionary?
Give me your speculations.
…Nobody would exist, those hormones are what allowed humanity to survive and reproduce long enough to ask this question.
As crude as those things are when you look at the worst parts of humanity, they’re necessary.
Well now that we’ve survived long enough. What if we did it today? What if we removed the aggression and the fixation on titties and the rest. Just extracted the whole mental influence there.
We’d die out. It’s clearly a question that’s hyperfocused on the worst aspects of it.
We successfully complete many projects that arguably have nothing to do with our hormonal fight/fuck imperative.
Why do you think that the “maintaining the population” project would be different?
Because those hormones are also involved with making people want to do those things. Just because you associate them specifically with fight/fuck doesn’t mean thats all they do. “humanity” is heavily tied to those hormones.
Like i’ve been stressing for this entire discussion you’re hyperfocused on two things for a subject that is far more multifaceted than that.
Yes, “humanity” is heavily tied to those hormones. And humanity is also motivated by much other than those hormones. So to conclude that without hormonal influences we would necessarily abandon important projects like “keeping the population maintained” seems rather hasty.
So let’s consider some more interesting results than “we would all just die”. Because no doubt they exist.
Come on, exercise your speculation muscles.