And that they’ve observed that once groups reach a certain size, it’s inevitable that the group contains at least one asshole.
It’s like the fable of the scorpion and the frog. It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to cross the river. It just means that you need a more complex plan than just carrying the scorpion across on your back.
If you only saw a bear in a circus, you would think its nature was to ride a unicycle.
It’s also intellectually dishonest to ignore examples of communal behavior, such as gift economies and communal farrming, as somehow not counting when we’re considering “human nature”. There are exceedingly many examples of selflessness even in this individualist hellhole we built for ourselves.
It just means they recognize that we are all assholes on the inside. Some of us cognitively try to supress the assholeness. But it’s there. If it wasn’t you would have died of hunger as a baby probably. Cause boy-oh is screaming at 2am an asshole move.
Or they’ve just met a reasonable number of a*holes…
And that they’ve observed that once groups reach a certain size, it’s inevitable that the group contains at least one asshole.
It’s like the fable of the scorpion and the frog. It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to cross the river. It just means that you need a more complex plan than just carrying the scorpion across on your back.
If you only saw a bear in a circus, you would think its nature was to ride a unicycle.
It’s also intellectually dishonest to ignore examples of communal behavior, such as gift economies and communal farrming, as somehow not counting when we’re considering “human nature”. There are exceedingly many examples of selflessness even in this individualist hellhole we built for ourselves.
Not quite, if that were the case the statement would be “because assholes”. By blaming “human nature” they’re self identifying as one of the assholes.
Assholism is a diverse group with many discrete types of sub-asshole.
Not necessarily. People could have an outlook similar to “a person is smart, people are idiots”
It’s the nature of humanity that in any reasonably sized group, there are always a few assholes.
Agreed, but IMHO that is a different conjecture to that of the meme.
It just means they recognize that we are all assholes on the inside. Some of us cognitively try to supress the assholeness. But it’s there. If it wasn’t you would have died of hunger as a baby probably. Cause boy-oh is screaming at 2am an asshole move.
This is the projection the meme is pointing and laughing at
I stand by my statement.