Intraspecific  Human Aggressiveness

(Rebellious  Angel Second Part)

the art of war

Eventually intraspecific human aggressiveness, which started as a war among gangs, turned into the noble art of war and values, like strength,courage, war abilities were considered just among the noblest features of man.

Sun-zu-art- of the- war

It’s natural, over the centuries, for aggressiveness genes to have come to us in right proportions, always with the mechanism at negative retroaction.

The noble art of war

In times of peace and relative welfare, I remember the so called period of the Augustan Peace in the Roman Empire, population tended to increase.

Among all new born people some of them were more endowed than others with aggressiveness genes.When the total number of persons reached a level that wasn’t compatible   with the available resources any longer, inevitably a war would break out and eliminate, both pacific subjects and above all aggressive ones, who were reduced to a number compatible with a pacific society.

Aggressive subject

The creation of armies, military codes and rules, makes this mechanism more and more perfect and socially accepted. Therefore it’s natural for genetic tendency to aggressiveness to be handed down, over the centuries, always in the same proportion as to genetic tendency to meekness.

It’s curious to notice how subjects whose aggressiveness genes were completely absent( for example St.Francis and St.Clara ) didn’t reproduce.

St.Clara

Eventually, above all in the new millenium, the idea of peace has become fashionable and for this reason values like aggressiveness,, strength, but also violence, abuse are out. Reality is often schizophrenic and while we resolutely assert something, deeply inside ourselves we feel ready to desire and if it is possible do another one. In fact genes are the ones who decide, lay down the law and not men who are nothing but survival machines, robots ready to obey their orders.

Aggressiveness genes of intraspecific human aggressiveness, , selected over the centuries as a guarantee of survival and possibility of reproduction, continue to exercise their power on men in spite of all their good purposes.

Gene aggressiveness

In the past wars had performed the function of canalizing aggressiveness towards situations, conflicts, where, although it were free to express itself, aggressiveness respected, even if partially, some rules and was limited to definite subjects[1].

Every form of aggressiveness out of definite rules( wars or sports like boxing ) is considered socially reprehensible but, aggressiveness genes,which are greatly present in our genetic inheritance, particularly in aggressive subjects, urge us to admire and emulate episodes of violence.

On media, where”moral” is the sale of a product, aggressiveness is much emphasized and becomes object of a more or less subliminal approval. In criminal events, appeared on media, the murder is the real protagonist, while the victim is always overshadowed, in a vague role hereafter. This way the reader or the spectator is induced to identify himself with the winning aggressor rather than with the losing victim. Subjects without a critical ability of their own, like childrern, teenagers and youth, get these messages passively.

[1] Armies should always have had to destroy one onother so as to save civil population(the peaceful ones). By limiting the losses of peaceful people it was much easier to reduce the number of the subjects with aggressiveness genes as to the ones who were lacking. Only aggressive people, for whom a limited number of dead was enough to bring them back to the right proportions with peaceful ones, faced in mercenary armies. One of the features of the last two world conflicts was the one of being the wars with the greatest number of dead people among the civilians of the wars in the world history. This might also explain a greater percentage of aggressive people as to peaceful ones resulting at the end of conflicts.

Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci

To be continued in:

III) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Third Part)

IV) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Fourth Part)

V) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Fifth Part)

VI) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Sixth Part)

VII) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels   Seventh Part)

VIII) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Eighth Part)

IX) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Ninth Part)

X) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels Tenth Part)

 See also:

I) Intraspecific Human Aggressiveness (Rebellious Angels First Part)