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Originally posted by Brujah
About the last part, do you think it's conditioning, fear or just laziness ?
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Fundamentally our genes are the cause, with all three things that you mentioned thrown in for good measure.
However we like to see ourselves, we are just another species of animal. We may have suppressed some traits, emphasised others and rationalized or romanticized still more. But underneath everything we function just as we did long before a heavenly orchestra played "Also Sprach Zarathustra" to a bunch of apes (or whatever it was that gave us "dominion over all other species"). In common with other species and since Nature is nothing if not logical, we are programmed to be workers.
The only reason I'm surprised we haven't suppressed this trait is that we have successfully suppressed others which, on the face of it, are less at odds with our awareness of and image of ourselves.