Nasty impulses and mediocrity

[Reciprocality]

The thing that makes the animal which you would otherwise think of as intelligent quite mediocre and pale is that it actually cares about being in agreement with others.

When we ask "why do humans care about the construction of agreements almost all the time?" what quality answers do we provide that actually has explanatory power?

We may reevaluate the question and ask instead "what about the context a human finds itself in is removed if they never had the affinity for agreement to begin with?" or "what characterises the phenomenal impulses of people when they perceive or relate to strangers such that agreements (as opposed to something else) could neutralise these impulses?" and "if the tool by which the impulses are neutralised becomes the means for that end in general then wouldn't people seek agreement not informed first and foremost by what is true but instead to counteract the impulses?

 

The keyword here which exposes the possibility of relevant observations is "impulses", have you observed in yourself something antagonistic, something ugly, something hostile towards others? What if certain phenomenal impulses akin to these descriptions would answer precisely the first question above, why most the individuals pertaining to an extremely intelligent species could fall so short?

Edited March 7 by Reciprocality