Dominance Economics In the Civilization of Great Apes

Part of understanding humanity is understanding the tournaments that secure the need to procreate. That’s essentially what domineering behaviors are about; however humans are a little more complex in our motives. We may be driven by a neuro-psychological issue, along with natural predispositions, and complex environmental problems to solve. It’s as much about what we are responding to as it is what we are responding with. Behaviors appear to be an interface between both individual and environment, and individual and collective, and collective and environment, and that is both conscious individual and collective consciousness, and subconscious individual and collective sub conscious. The disciplines that study these aspects of human behavior are, in no particular order, Psychology, Behavioral Biology, Sociology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychology. This could also include Neurology and Endocrinology as well. Pathology can be useful in explaining behavior too. This is all sorted and understood by the logical power of relationships, with the bulk processing power of Statistical Analysis, in the Evolutionary/Developmental context of Statistical Mechanics.

Understanding what is to be fought over, as an object of dominance, is essentially power structures. Power is the goal of dominance; and control of various powerful structures, tools, concepts and such, might aid in domination. This is the nested hierarchy of the objects of power sorted and understood by the way they relate to each other, for the purpose of serving domineering tournaments. This also however needs initial conditions to give more context to model relationships and understandings with. This is all where economics excels. Economics is the discipline of optimization and equilibrium. Economics is more than capable of coordinating the bulk of the behavioral understanding of these various disciplines. These disciplines use economics to do it themselves. This is something that economics could have easily studied in retrograde, to advance the general field of economics. This however didn’t happen, and Macroeconomics is the result. Ironically, a more advanced economic understanding is capable of explaining this collective behavior. There are behavioral reasons why a more compartmentalized understanding of economics is chosen for understanding the economy, by those who endeavor to run the economy, rather than the understanding of economics that has developed in the scientific disciplines, that have used it to explain coordinating and optimizing behaviors. It not only stands to reason that there is a relationship between the compulsion to dominate and the choice of compartmentalized understanding, but that relationship is the only game in town for understanding it. By virtue of both Occham’s and Hanlon’s Razor, the reason for compartmentalized understanding of economics by, a collective of economic elites, in lieu of an existing, more advanced understanding of economics, is a natural impulse to dominate the discipline. This is explained by the understanding that the discipline is a power structure.

Many things are considered objects of power. Money, knowledge, military might (obviously) is power. There is also the flow of information and it’s relationship with educational resources. The first act in a war is domineering behaviors against an economy. Economies are the first targets of war. They are the primary driver of war. Modern warfare developed from early tribal raids… of economies. Economies are essentially the quintessential power structure because they fund the military might, which is why they are the first target. It all revolves around the economies. That makes Global Economics the 101 for understanding modern economics, yet a compartmentalized Macroeconomics is chosen over that as well. It’s well known that educational resources are structured for the purpose of job placement. Therefor, the curriculum is chosen by what is necessary for the relevant job. That’s part of it, of course, but it’s also an implication. Jobs are social roles and that relates to the class system. This relationship is important to understand why compartmentalization is intellectually domineering. The reasonable assertion about institutionalized curriculum is that it’s structured to fit the class system, on a need to know basis.

This becomes obvious with research into Rockefeller’s donation and intentional restructuring of public education for the need for an industrial work force. The intention was probably partially optimization and partially social stratification. Access to higher education has also been a socially stratifying influence. It’s been a pay to play thing throughout the history of the free world, but has become a particularly concerning issue in recent times with exorbitant costs. This explains the emergence of Open Access resources. This is equilibrium. Economics also sorts the classes in the social hierarchy and that is part of the reason that it’s compartmentalized with models like Macroeconomics. It’s essentially a need to know discipline for an obedient work force. That’s the power of the economic understanding that developed from usage by the various scientific disciplines. That too is optimization that should be expected to result in equilibrium.

The Business and Economic cycles are factors in the ability of a nation state to exist. Economic collapse is the primary attempt at explanation of the many ruins of remote antiquity. Economic collapse is of course the expected primary influence in ancient societal collapse. One explanation for why they were buried might be an attempt to prevent the evidence of their existence from being destroyed. There appeared to be a strategy to erase competing nations and settlements in ancient times. There was also of course recycling and reuse of stone, leaving some sites relatively bare. This may also be one of the reasons megaliths were used in construction. They of course would be more difficult to move and reuse. The progression of tribal raid to settlement raid and warfare between city states and eventually nations is likely one explanation of the many observations we make. This is domineering behavior between collectives that has resulted in the dominant state we refer to as an Empire.

Understanding the disorder or pathology in Economics requires the understanding that usage of economics in the various scientific disciplines has developed. It’s that initial condition of Symbiosis that is the general base rate, sexual selection as more particular drives, and the apparent though influenced ambition. It’s where the principles of optimization and equilibrium are opposed that economic disorder is present; and a deeper understanding of that comes from the various disciplines that have used the models of optimization and equilibrium from economics. The tendency of aggregation of wealth and markets is rooted in an understanding that dominance of those structures is part of human behavior. The fact that this is excluded from Macroeconomics and analysis of issues like inflation is part of this ambition to dominate the structure of economic understanding and the information that it shares with the public. This explains the emergence of OpenNS; which is that scientific understanding of economics, submitted for general public access, with as few restrictions as possible. It’s an optimization and equilibrium.