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“The Eighth Descent—Murder:

““Kill or Be Killed”—Our Delusion of Scarcity Made for Murder”

is Chapter 8

of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by Michael Adzema.

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PH 8/1

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…in early gatherer-hunter times, yes, we had plenty for everyone. But with fear rose anxiety over one’s ability to survive, thus competition over resources—” []

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PH 8/2

[] “…a competition which was not needed—& then the very creation of what one was trying to avoid: The possibility that one might need to kill or one would be killed.” []

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PH 8/3

“Back again now, to the basic mistrust that set up in us an obsession to add to our already plentiful supply of food; to this questioning of Divine Providence,..”

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PH 8/4

“…this mistrust, which was first manifested in our earliest forebears as a willingness to kill & eat planetmate flesh much like our own, that is, to hunt.”

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PH 8/5

“For with hunting & the insensitivity to the spilling of blood, it was only a matter of time before that same insecurity & fear for survival would cause our progenitors to be able to kill each other.”

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PH 8/6

“Thus, our mistrust that Nature would provide all we needed, which led to us deciding to kill planetmates, wrought of our fear of dying through lack of sustenance, was in truth only our *delusion*…”

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PH 8/7

“[our *delusion*] wrought of our crazed, increasingly ghostly existence, which was set into motion by our perinatal trauma. It pushed us to hunt, in order to add to what was already a sufficient food supply. It then allowed us to kill each other.”

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PH 8/8

“*“Kill or Be Killed”—Our Delusion of Scarcity Makes Murder*”

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PH 8/9

“Thus our delusion of being susceptible to death through starvation coincided with a fear that other planetmates, including human ones, would bring about that starvation by impinging on our resources.”

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PH 8/10

“And this [our experience of prenatal starving plus our basic mistrust from birth trauma] led first to hunting & eventually to an ability to do homicide.”

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PH 8/11

“It was a delusion not shared by all at first, but as more & more humans were overcome with it, humans did create the very real threat of being killed, for that reason, by their own kind.”

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PH 8/12

“It was a self-fulfilling prophecy that once we believed we were in danger of being attacked & killed for our resources, we began being willing to attack & kill.”

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PH 8/13

“Consequently, we created a situation where indeed we *were* in danger of being attacked & murdered for our resources by other humans.

“If this is not clear enough, we need only look around us today.”

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PH 8/14

“We see the exact same pattern in that over & again we are told that we have the ability to feed & sustain all humans on Earth at this time, if the world’s resources were more equitably distributed.”

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PH 8/15

“However, the 1%, despite knowing this, continue their hoarding of wealth & thr efforts to further strip what they can of resources & money from those who have less...even to the point of targeting, cruelly, those who have little.”

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PH 8/16

“In so doing, we end up with the killing & murders, manifest hugest & most brutally in wars, which characterize our times, along with its affiliates of criminalizing of dissent;”

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PH 8/17

“murder of opposition leaders & those presenting knowledge or technology that might be helpful but which threatens the status quo, in developed countries; & expansion of the prison population, which is especially flagrant in the U.S.”

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PH 8/18

“*Murder, Relative to…*

“Another parallel to this in modern times is the way we magnify the dangers of society in our media to the point where we feel we are threatened & need to take action. Thus, we create the very thing we feared.”

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PH 8/19

“Let me explain: Herman (2012) presents data about murders among a particular gatherer-hunter group, which shows them to be as bad as in a city like Chicago.”

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PH 8/20

“While that might seem high, keep in mind that it is still no more than as exists in some, what we think to be, “civilized” societies. Furthermore, as Herman points out,..”

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PH 8/21

“…when you factor in war, that is, organized, institutional murder—an abundance of which we have in modern times—the danger of being killed by another human among gatherer-hunter groups is vastly less than in our times.”

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PH 8/22

“Beyond that, keep in mind that any gatherer-hunter group described in modern times is already going to be a *hunting* group.”

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PH 8/23

“And, as this chapter will make clear: It is hunting, more specifically, killing planetmates & eating their flesh, that enabled us to be able to kill each other.”

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PH 8/24

“Therefore, gatherer-hunters in our century cannot be taken as representative of what we might have been like as mere gatherers when we were protohumans.”

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PH 8/25

“To get an idea of what humans might have been like as foragers, we need to look to our nearest primate relatives who *are* simple foragers, not meat-eaters.”

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PH 8/26

“Our two closest relatives, with whom we share identical DNA of over 98%,meaning we are barely removed from them, are the chimpanzee & the gorilla. & the gorilla is exclusively vegetarian. Note that gorillas do not murder their own kind, either.”

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PH 8/27

“As for the chimpanzee, well, this cousin is more omnivorous—eating food¬stuffs gathered from streams & lakes as well as occasional small animals, as can be easily gotten.”

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PH 8/28

“But he or she does not hunt or eat meat in anywhere near the amount that humans do.”

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PH 8/29

“Chimpanzees also do not murder—except in extremely rare situations, only recently come to light, where it might have something to do with proximity to humans & their daemon of “civilization.””

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PH 8/30

“*Self-Fulfilling Prophecy*

“The additional point I am making in this example has to do with self-fulfilling prophecy, however. For in our modern media obsession with murder, assault, robbery, & guns,..”

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PH 8/31

“…we, like those early forag¬ers, newly come to hunting, create such a fearful & anxious populace that, without a doubt, we actually *create* that danger we are supposedly shining a light on. You think not? You say, how?”

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PH 8/32

“Well, such terror creates for many people an idea that they need to have weapons to protect themselves.”

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PH 8/33

“In getting guns, they then actually greatly facilitate the chance that they will actually be in danger, for others around them are doing the same.”

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PH 8/34

“We know, in modern times, how such obsession with guns as we see in the U.S., which also has a media drowning them in images of ghastly murder & brutal assault—in news reports, television cop & crime shows, & the like—”

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PH 8/35

“—[such obsession with guns as we see in the U.S., which also has a media drowning them in images of ghastly murder & brutal assault] actually creates the very thing that people owning guns are thinking they are preventing.”

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PH 8/36

“*The Heights*

“I am reminded of something I observed in looking at a newspaper report from my hometown, which described the neighborhood in which I grew up”

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PH 8/37

“It turns out [my neighborhood, as a child,] had become the murder center of the region, predominantly by way of gunfire. It was not that way at all when I grew up there.”

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PH 8/38

“Though there were the “toughs,” & as a child I was wary of walking the commercial street in the area, one block away, which was appropri¬ately named, Market Street, as was the others around my age in my immediate neighborhood.”

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PH 8/39

“Nonetheless, while fighting was common, so much that even I had to participate on several occasions—I was confronted & it was not okay to back down—still, murder was pretty much unheard of.”

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PH 8/40

“Then came drugs...and, with it, crime. As the neighborhood continued its economic decline, its property values went down,& sordid & unsavory sorts—oftentimes from the bigger cities around, of Philadelphia or New York—”

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PH 8/41

“[As the neighborhood continued its economic decline, its property values went down, & sordid & unsavory sorts] began filling up the neighborhoods of The Heights, which is what that part of town was called.”

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PH 8/42

“Anyway, in the newspaper article, they listed, oh, maybe thirty murders over the recent number of years. They described who, how, why, & by whom. I need to add the racial element, as it is relevant.”

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PH 8/43

“For while nearly all of [the murders] involved Blacks, there was one incident involving Whites. Surrounded on all sides by a Black populace & an environment afloat in drugs, guns, crime, & murder, they too had acquired guns &...can you guess?”

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PH 8/44

“Yes, there was a killing there, too. Having acquired guns to protect themselves, these two White brothers, who were living together, ended up shooting each other. One died.

“When I stopped laughing at the dufuses, I felt sorry for them.”

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PH 8/45

“I see this as a way that excessive fear leads to risky actions which then create the very thing those actions are intending to avoid, exactly as in a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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PH 8/46

“This is a pretty good parallel to the twisted, fearful, obsessive thinking that brought about murder in our species at its beginnings, as well.”

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PH 8/47

“*Competing Versus Sharing*

“In early gatherer-hunter times, yes, we had plenty for everyone. However with fear rose anxiety over one’s ability to survive, thus competition over resources—a competition which was not needed—”

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PH 8/48

“—[with fear rose anxiety over one’s ability to survive, thus competition over resources] & then the very creation of what one was trying to avoid: The possibility that one might need to kill or one would be killed.”

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PH 8/49

“I want to further add that this same pattern & this same fearful obsessiveness is later what leads to the intense competitiveness that overtook our species once we began living in settled communities.”

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PH 8/50

“For as gatherers we were characterized as sharing & cooperative. Indeed, if there is one trait found in non-civilized people more than any other, it is that quality of cooperation & sharing.”

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PH 8/51

“Whereas, when we began living in settled communities, we began a hierarchy of haves & have-nots, wrought of the newly acquired ability to store things & thus to build up wealth.”

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PH 8/52

“With this inequality of means came a tension between people that was not there before, & that tension involved some folks getting less because others had more.”

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PH 8/53

“This anxiety of inequality, hand-in-hand with the feelings of unfairness that come of it, create the drive to compete, rather than cooperate.”

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PH 8/54

“Thus it is inequality itself, wrought of the hierarchy made possible only in settled communities, which precipitates greed in humans & the feeling they need to store up more & to take away from those who have less.”

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PH 8/55

“This drive to compete increased, over time, with increasing population centers, increasing hierarchy, increasing complexity of density of population in cities, & more finely differentiated division of labor…”

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PH 8/56

“…to the point where it is has reached the mania of competitiveness that exists in modern societies today.”

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PH 8/57

“I will have a lot more to say about that & similar developments in the course of human devolution/evolution later,..”

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PH 8/58

“…but the point, for now, is that it is created out of the same kind of mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecy that turned hunters into murderers.”

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PH 8/59

“In sum, out of our delusion of scarcity of resources, we created the reality that we would need to kill in order to keep from being killed.”

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PH 8/60

“In sum, out of our delusion of scarcity of resources, we created the reality that we would need to kill in order to keep from being killed.”

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PH 8/60

This has been the entire Chapter 8 of my book,

*Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

which is

a devolutional look at human’s splitting away from Nature in the creation of a human nature at war with the natural.

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PH 8/61

The book, *Prodigal Human*, shows how in our creation of civilization, we locked in a human status that has us either as Controllers, Conforming Underlings, or Authentics.

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PH 8/62

We see how that change from our primal, prehistoric profile, has led us to the kind of personality today of folks who are able to end life on this planet, with hardly a second glance.

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PH 8/63

In doing so, *Prodigal Human* presents a new devolutional theory in anthropology. The book also explains how our deeper human nature, cooperative with Nature, can be regained and our world saved from apocalypse.

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PH 8/64

This devolutional theory of evolution demonstrates how bipedalism & the resulting birth trauma led to descents of humans from an original natural state, leading to misogyny, class war, hunting, sedentary living, farming, religion, & more.

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PH 8/65

Ch 8 is titled,

“The Eighth Descent—Murder:

““Kill or Be Killed”—Our Delusion of Scarcity Made for Murder”

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PH 8/66

The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*.

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PH 8/67

This is the completed document for *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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PH 8/68

Feel free to download the book, pass it around, use it to help get word out to save the planet to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

Unless major actions by the world's governments happens fast, it is all over for life on planet Earth.

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PH 8/69

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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PH 8/70

Finally, if what you prefer are paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below.

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&

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All my books are priced at cost or the minimum Amazon allows.

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PH 8/71

Up next,

in *Prodigal Human:

*The Descents of Man*

is Chapter 9, titled,

“The Ninth Descent—Farming:

“The Agrarian “Revolution” Was the Direst Development”

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PH 8/72

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