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wow, so interesting that a fundamentally-flawed social dynamics mythos spawned because a group of researchers didn’t control for the fact that the wolves they were studying were in captivity (hexbear.net)

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anyways, isn’t it amazing that we’ve somehow divined the economic and social structure that according to the last few centuries of research happens to perfectly embody all of humanity’s innate characteristics and primal instincts and incentive structures and behavior patterns clueless

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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

I think that even if the alpha wolf word had never been coined people would've found naturalistic metaphors to justify oppression and being overall assholes to each other, like queen bee or some other thing.

[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

consider the lobster jbp

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Also, last time I saw some research the queen bee was found to be more of a resource for the Hive than any kind of monarch. Bee behavior is surprisingly complex so I wouldn't feel comfortable saying for sure till I looked it up again.