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Exerpt
from "Return of the Bird Tribes"
... by Ken
Carey
ou ego-ruled humans
who feud and fight among yourselves do not seem to realize the obvious:
the very values that you employ to determine your social behavior,
would, if employed by your body parts, effectively block any cooperative
association of ribosomes, enzymes, mitochondria, and other little life
forms from providing you with even a single coherent cell, to say nothing
of a healthy and integral human body. Hundreds of thousands of
little beings, all working voluntarily together, make a human body what it
is.
It is not a case of survival of
the fittest, as your belief systems, based on short-term
observation proclaim. It is rather a case of flourishment of the most cooperative, as all long-term observation of the universe
verifies. It is through cooperation with one another that diverse
forms of life adapt and thrive. And it is only through the symbiotic
cooperation of a multitude of simpler organisms that more complex
organisms like your bodies are able to come into existence at
all.