We evolved from a ape-like mamals- and it has always been beneficial to have one member in the group ready to eat for tigers, lions and bears.
That is what drove social evolution, that if the group could agree on you as the next in line, sleeping deeper in the tree, on the thick branches, that dont give you a warning if the cat gets to you- tag your it.
Socializing today, from the first bullying (nuke-tests) in school to the advanced stages of mobbing at work- is still not far from this intial cold-war that tought us how to speak about who should be the next one to be fed.
Its horrific, its ugly and as it goes with truths, that makes it more likely.
But today, we can not only avoid this, we can even detect situations that trigger such behaviour excesses (age and ability uniform groups, external performance stress) and can avoid this, by declaring a external (virtual) group member as the next to be fed. "Your department is under a lot of stress .. but at least you do not mess it up like this other department, who are about to see the axe, because they cant team up."
TL,DR; Know you nature well, do not go into denial, hack it within the limits of the whats possible, nature is not a destiny.
Suicide is the result of bullying, workplace mobbing, community harassment, being hacked and fucked with over and over again for decades. The tigers and wolves in this case are replaced by the act of suicide -- this is the goal now whether people are conscious of it, or not.
Humans are primitive creatures in possession of a global stalking/harassment network that leaks over into "Real Life".
But people socialize in ways that are very different from apes. Humans are so deeply social by nature that we make other monkies look psychopathic by comparison. Show me an ape that performs charity to save other species. People clearly have a much deeper capacity for altruism, and form much much larger better integrated colonies than apes. We don't necessarily need to pick losers, humans are naturally willing to make sacrifices for the group even at the expense of their own individual reproduction.
Groups of people are more like insects than apes. Millions of apes could never coexist together the way human cities or ant colonies do.
That is what drove social evolution, that if the group could agree on you as the next in line, sleeping deeper in the tree, on the thick branches, that dont give you a warning if the cat gets to you- tag your it.
Socializing today, from the first bullying (nuke-tests) in school to the advanced stages of mobbing at work- is still not far from this intial cold-war that tought us how to speak about who should be the next one to be fed.
Its horrific, its ugly and as it goes with truths, that makes it more likely.
But today, we can not only avoid this, we can even detect situations that trigger such behaviour excesses (age and ability uniform groups, external performance stress) and can avoid this, by declaring a external (virtual) group member as the next to be fed. "Your department is under a lot of stress .. but at least you do not mess it up like this other department, who are about to see the axe, because they cant team up."
TL,DR; Know you nature well, do not go into denial, hack it within the limits of the whats possible, nature is not a destiny.