Humans are domesticated animals, and why that matters

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Humans are not self-domesticated animals, but involuntarily domesticated animals due to our sociocultural nature, capable of developing symbolic language systems.
The reciprocity economy practiced by our ancestors, characterized by cooperation and interdependence, perfected the process of collective sociocultural domestication.
The "evolution" towards complex societies transformed domestication into a process of specialization, preparing individuals to belong to a group, class, or caste and fulfill a specific role or function within a hierarchical sociocultural system.
Domestication for subordination, through indoctrination and instrumentalization.
Involuntary domestication, a collective participatory process, was over time transformed into managed domestication by opportunists who created a legal system to make people conform to the disproportionate imbalance between effort, time, and unnecessary suffering in exchange for a meager reward. Domestication for a culture of subordination to replace a culture of reciprocity, cooperation, interdependence, and shared freedom.

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