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> Every animal needs to survive and will do anything to get by including scavenging. Yea, and so do nations. The descriptors they used feel conformable describ
by verall 6y ago
> Every animal needs to survive and will do anything to get by including scavenging.
Yea, and so do nations. The descriptors they used feel conformable describing both the nation and the mascot. It's not deeply provocative. It is a comparison that is interesting to read, because it describes how nations and animals can act similarly, but on difference scales.
- codemac 6y agoExcept nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans, rather than a deep survival drive of the individual when pushed into a life or death scenario.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Except nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans Every division of the universe into distinct constituents is a completely made up concept by groups of humans, including “humans” and “groups” thereof.
- mandelbrotwurst 6y agoAnimals categorize as well, e.g. food or not, threatening or not.
- z2 6y agoAnd what are individual humans but groups of cells trying to stave off entropy and survive just a bit longer?