The true side of human beings
"Scratch the civilized man and the savage will appear" as can be seen in the phrase of Arthur Schopenhauer, as more civilized, critical or rational that are human beings, in circumstances of danger or stress, they usually resort to animal behaviors, such as What happened in France 1819 The shipwreck of Medusa, so through the use of the history of the frigate of the jellyfish and the characteristics that an average human possesses, we can demonstrate the incredible similar features that we have with our ancestors, not only in the part Physics, in the brain, but also the psychological,
It is no secret to anyone that we still have some very marked characteristics that we share with our ancestors, but of the most amazing is like still in times of crisis or survival we tend to become animals, which only ensure their own well -being regardless of each other, As what happened many years ago with a frigate from the French Navy, the jellyfish, time after the Napoleonic war, in July 1816, this sail with other ships of Aix Island, near Bordeaux to the city of Sant Louis, in Senegal, and his goal was to recover a possessions from France that England had returned, the staff was: military, officials and above all, scientists who carried research objects, was also the governor of Senegal. At the beginning of the expedition, the Captain of the Medusa made many mistakes, but his most catastrophic error was entering a shallow aquífera zone, damaging the ship’s housing, and when they tried to repair the rain, the rain managed to do the irreparable damage. Therefore, the crews were divided into two, the rich and the poor, having few ships, only the most status managed to climb while more than half of the crew stayed on the ship shipwrecked, in addition, the boats could be used To tow the broken housing, but since the sense of survival of the rich was more important than the collective these disided abandon them to drift. Animals feeling threatened tend to be more aggressive and stop thinking like herd and more irrationally, and obviously human beings are no exception, when the shipwrecked ones realized that there was no turning back, it was first a struggle for The space, then by survival, leaving companionship, and finally what kills any animal, food, breaking the limits of sanity of anyone, reaching cannibalism.
I wonder, what would happen if any of the readers, something similar to what happened to them, is true that lately it is very difficult for this type of event to appear thanks to all the scientific and technological developments that the latter have presented Of decades, however, this does not exempt us from having equal or worse behaviors, it is not necessary We change the treasures returned by a project, the errors taken by the captain would be replaced by the procrastination and flooding of the ship for the remaining 3 days for the delivery of the project. At that time all stress works like a volcano, making the group into crisis, since they lose rationality and see how to stop wasting time and looking for a solution, they decide to blame each other between creating an even greater problem sinking yet plus the raft. After this event, those who have the greatest authority in the group derives to those who consider less transcendental generated discord in the group.
On the other hand, we look a little more in depth our ancestors, the chimpanzees, studying a little more ethology (study of the behavior) of these animals, we can realize that we share a lot with them, and it is not only with DNA , even when we believe that at this time we are smarter animals, due to the ability to make rational decisions, their way of acting and thinking is too similar to that of us. Likewise, these animals are suffering a destination similar to the Medusa frigate, their ship is joining due to deforestation, agriculture and commerce, increasing the pressure, in parallel, the roses in various species of primates is increasing when they are seen without space and Without food in what is left of your boat, being committed to your behavior and genetics.
It is also well known that in this type of animals the thought of the alpha male is handled, that is to say that through brute force and bloody fights it is decided who is the leader of the pack, therefore, this exerts a very large pressure In these animals creating rivalry and aggressiveness. Psychological problems also play a very important role, there have been many cases of chimpanzees mothers who become cannibals for the death of their children.
How different is the human brain to that of a ape, this being such a common question, not many know the most amazing similarities between them and us, apart from the fact that they have an incredible ability to adapt and memory, the animal’s brain is totally The same, it has almost the same structure, with the same amount of pavilions that the human brain possesses but with a somewhat small size, it is for this reason that we can realize that we have many kinships with our chimpanzees ancestors, since this is the organ that allows all living beings to make decisions, in these two cases maintain certain behaviors depending on the situation.
To conclude, we have always proclaimed ourselves as the upper race, but we never stop to think that no matter how rational or intelligent Simply for the behavior we present to some stimuli, this shows that the aggressiveness and rudeness that characterizes our ancestors still have it in force.
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