Our species thrivival and evolution is correlated with alloparenting.
Alloparenting is the primary behavioural distinction between hominin and primate species, and is closely associated or correlated with the enlarged forebrain which enables emotional self regulation, creativity, third mind awareness....
Alloparenting—the care of offspring by individuals other than biological parents—is a defining hallmark of human evolution. By allowing mothers to share the immense energetic burden of raising altricial (helpless) infants, with the adolescent and adult community, alloparenting enabled our ancestors to better regulate birth intervals and evolve exceptionally large brains, laying the foundation for modern human societies.
Egalitarian approaches are rooted in care and empathy.
The affiliative and reward systems that support biological parenting are also active in alloparents. The Neurobiological Causes and Effects of Alloparenting highlights how alloparental caregiving triggers neurobiological bond formation, ensuring vulnerable infants receive high-quality care even if biological parents are temporarily absent.
Alloparenting mitigates against concentration of power notably the absence of hierarchy systems and patriarchy common in egalitarian societies
Books I have read that have informed me in this issue.
1. Mothers and Others : written by Sarah Bluffer Hrdy
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1c84czb
"Mothers and Others is a brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again." -E. O. Wilson
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends-and, with any luck, grandmothers.
Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.
Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.
Elon Musk's statement that 'The greatest weakness of Western Civilisation
"Mothers and Others is a brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again." -E. O. Wilson
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.
Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends-and, with any luck, grandmothers.
Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.
Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.
Elon Musk's statement that 'The greatest weakness of Western Civilisation
is Empathy' which clearly resonates with Wealth-as-Power is indicative. Israeli Zionist indoctrination is the deliberate weaponisation of their own children.
Mothers and Others is an easy read.
From its opening vision of "apes on a plane"; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable.
But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children-and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.
But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children-and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.
2. Father Time : written by Sarah Bluffer Hrdy
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors’ offspring.
But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening?
Real men are empathic nurturers.
Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be “normal.”
In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers.
They develop caring potential that wealth-as-power hierarchies and patriarchy pretended men do not possess.
In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers.
They develop caring potential that wealth-as-power hierarchies and patriarchy pretended men do not possess.
Wealth-as-Power detests empathy.
In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates—all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more.
The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.
The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.
The implications are existential.
And given the current enraged violent surge of Patriarchal Wealth-as-Power which Trump, Theil, Musk, Farage, Robinson and many others of the politically agitated billionaire class are presenting and their weaponisation of 'masculinity' as a misogynistic manospheric aggressive nationalistic political movement that is fascistic and divisive, as a campaign to evade accountability for the many harms that we understand from the evidence that Wealth Extraction has caused and is causing (Climate Disruption, Environment Degradation, Warfare, Poverty, Racism) as Wealth-as-Power seeks to over power Governments and countries, the implications are existential.
Northern Ireland Riots Last Night..
In the 1970s the British Army were brought into Northern Ireland on the premise of protecting British Catholic Citizens from British Protestants who were burning the Catholics out of their homes because the Catholics were organising a Civil Rights movement to address the oppression they were under within Northern Ireland. The issue was civil rights, not Fenianism/Republicanism vs Unionism/Loyalism.
History tells us the British Security State and its covert military wing were involved in the Protestant violence, and later on infiltrated the IRA and other militia and ran undercover attacks, killings and bombings, presenting them as from each 'side' presumably to escalate and exacerbate the shituation into a war as a way to crush the Civil Rights Movement.
History tells us the British Security State and its covert military wing were involved in the Protestant violence, and later on infiltrated the IRA and other militia and ran undercover attacks, killings and bombings, presenting them as from each 'side' presumably to escalate and exacerbate the shituation into a war as a way to crush the Civil Rights Movement.
The British and American Ruling Class saw and still see the Ciivl Rights Movement as a threat. Just as they see Feminism and Socialism as threats. Patriarchy as Wealth-as-Power remains determined to dominate all our lives and to evade being held accountable.
Poverty is a weapon.
The only people who should be ashamed of poverty are those who maintain it as a political and economic weapon.
In England, over one in five adults and a record 31% of children—equivalent to about 4.5 million children nationally—live in relative poverty, defined as having a household income below 60% of the median average, after housing costs are deducted.
Shared parenting by a whole community that has the resources to do that safely and comfortably is a core requirement for psychological health of the people - it takes a village to raise a healthy child.
Poverty is un-natural, it is invented and maintained and in England it is intentionally concentrated, with urban and post-industrial regions bearing the highest burden. The North West has the highest child poverty rate of any English region, with nearly 90% of constituencies seeing at least a quarter of children living in hardship.
Locally, the crisis is most severe in parts of major cities. For example, in the Birmingham Ladywood constituency, a staggering 62% of children live in poverty.
There are no good reasons why a wealthy economy such as England should have long term poverty at such scale.
The agitators like Farage, Trump, Robinson, Peterson, Bannon and others are grooming young men and older men from those impoverished communities who they indoctrinate into misogyny, racism and alpa maleism as 'tradition', offering a traditional patriarchal masculinity as a solution, presenting minority groups as scapegoats.
They target boys and men who are genuinely relatively deprived, under educated, impoverished, and are rightfully resentful of their shituation as they see wealth being taken away by billionaires whilst their lives are littered with low wages, high rents, petty crime and layers of abuse, and who also feel aggrieved that the more comfortable middle classes look down on them... this is a bonfire fuelled by inequity, quite deliberate inequity.
The groomers know exactly what they are doing.
This is very much what is going on in Northern Ireland and England in 2026 - this time it is immigrants, rather than Catholics, who are being used as scapegoats and targets. The political objective of all of this is to divide a population that is under duress by an oligarchy system, in order to prevent connected, humane, community oriented solidarity ever emerging as a political movement. A movement that would hold Wealth-as-Power accountable and prevent it from causing more harm.
The British Ruling Class prefer chaos to being held accountable. They always have.
Anyone who reads history in detail, from the perspective of survivors of organised violence in colonised lands would understand this. Fortunately the Ruling Class document their covert action in a variety of ways which historians pore over decades after the events being examined. In Northern Ireland this was called collusion.
This is very much what is going on in Northern Ireland and England in 2026 - this time it is immigrants, rather than Catholics, who are being used as scapegoats and targets. The political objective of all of this is to divide a population that is under duress by an oligarchy system, in order to prevent connected, humane, community oriented solidarity ever emerging as a political movement. A movement that would hold Wealth-as-Power accountable and prevent it from causing more harm.
The British Ruling Class prefer chaos to being held accountable. They always have.
Anyone who reads history in detail, from the perspective of survivors of organised violence in colonised lands would understand this. Fortunately the Ruling Class document their covert action in a variety of ways which historians pore over decades after the events being examined. In Northern Ireland this was called collusion.
Indoctrination is a weapon
|ndoctrination is a process where adults tell children what to think, what to feel, what to believe, how to behave, it is a process that use sanctions, punishments and other tools to enforce those instructions upon the child, to discourage independent examination, to punish dissent and uses rewards to groom the child to internalise that set of beliefs or values or assumptions and those then become part of the child's sense of self. It is a form of colonisation of the child's mind, body, psyche.
The Israeli State and the Israeli people at large are an example of where this kind of cultural behaviour can take a society.
Colonialism in the America's was driven by this dynamic - successive generations of children were indoctrinated to believe they were superior humans to others, who were deemed inferior, less than human and therefore could be exterminated to make way for the fully human group.
Indoctrination can be intentional and direct or circumstantial and indirect.
Traumatised adults can inadvertently pass on their unresolved coping mechanisms, which children can pick up subconsciously.
Marketing exploits both of these dynamics. Political indoctrination, propaganda are everywhere in modern life.
These practices totally undermine alloparenting, and they thwart our natural evolutionary development as a nurturing social species.
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