That's an interesting theory.
I think as a whole, humanity just inevitably and historically gravitates toward slavery, which comes in more flavors than ice cream it seems...
"Progress" is an illusion fabricated to make us feel safely superior to this instinctual pull...But there is just a certain predictability and security inherent in being a slave-- especially a slave in a nation full of slaves (herd mentality I guess). Humans love being told what to do and how to think. It's so much simpler and less risky than trying to maintain freedom--let alone knowing what one would even do with such a responsibility. Of course, where there are slaves (or any other resource for that matter, human or otherwise) there will be masters, the textbook nihilistic narcissists for whom nothing is ever enough. And where there is nihilistic narcissists, there will be war.
Humans, while arguably the most "complex" animals, are not nearly as complex as we pretend to be.
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