Solidarity emerges from the psychology of Alloparenting as at the primary behavioural separation of Hominins from Primates. Shared parenting it is believed drove and was supported through the evolutionary enlargement of our forebrains over millions of years. We now understand that the forebrain is critical in how we learn, especially how we learn to self regulate our emotional states, what ever they might be, in any given moment. We understand how trauma and chronic stress in early life undermines this process. Co-operation demands a cognitive capacity for emotional state self regulation that builds mutual aid communities.
Allan Schore's work on the development of the emotional self in infancy as a lived experience learning before language is acquired, through carer to infant interactions, is substantive.
Robert Sapolsky too has done really fine work on human behaviour as product of millions of years of evolution as must as what happens in the milliseconds, seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years before any given action is taken.
Both are adept, well respected expert neuroscientists with a special interest in human behaviour. Both demonstrate the behaviour is not necessarily driven by genetics, as much as it is driven by lived experiential learning and circumstance.
Emotional Intelligence is something we all know something about, some more than others, most often through no fault or flaw of their own.
A metric for healthy Governance : I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community.
Healthy governance sets the context of governance as operating within as a shared responsibility of duty of care for one another. In that regards healthy governance has to be evidence led at all times.
Opinion and belief are insufficient to meet the responsibility of duty of care. Healthy governance sets the global context of governance as nurturing, caring for and stewarding of the habitat within which the community lives and from which that community draws living materials and other resources.
We have ample evidence of healthy long standing sustainable egalitarian ways of living, egalitarian cultures, from 19th, 20th and 21st Century Anthropology but also including first contact accounts by the first colonial 'explorers' from European Powers who met many, many older cultures as they ranged across Earth seeking conquest and colonisation.
Some have written of what they call 'pre-conquest consciousness'. Can you imagine what it might like to be part of a human community that knows nothing of conquest? Where there is no memory of that scale of violence, where friendship and affiliation is the primary modality of social organisation?
Our children all deserve a future shared environment that is healthy, that they can look forwards to, rather than what most of our children now fear - an entire generation is growing up worried about their futures, and we are the ones who ought to be stewarding that space for them to grow into.
What are we doing?
"You're going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet"
"It helps if you become your own best friend and find out what is true about all this for yourself."
"When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life then we will see social change in ways that matter."
"The psychology of any given family, community or society is both revealed and perpetuated in how that family, community or society relates to and treats the children and the most vulnerable people. Change that and you can change everything. Liberation is all about how we relate towards one another."
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