I am an Anarchist. Not a "Libertarian" or a "Galtist" but an Anarchist.

[Egalitarian Thug]

137. Human nature allowed for just this kind of communal based culture for 40,000 years.

We labor under so many false impressions, largely given to us by the bizarre theoindustrial idiocy of the 19th century, that it has becaome nearly impossible to fix any of the problems that plague our own society. Look at Schliemann's popularization of archeology. He was dead-wrong 99% of the time, but because he was favored and able to raise the cash and notoriety of this new "science", much of his misunderstanding of ancient cultures still haunts us.

Economics is another pseudo-science that plagues what we know to be facts.

The primary purpose for participating in this whole conversation has been to bring out that yours, and many other's, opinions on this topic are based falsehoods. It is not Human Nature to war. War is an artificial construct that we indoctrinate the tabula rasa of our children with because we were ourselves inculcated with this falsehood.

Homo Sapiens, thinking man, is not what we believe him to be. It's not that you don't know, it's that so much of what you do know is wrong. Our culture has evolved from a plethora of false premises that too many accept without question.

Look at all the lies that more than half Americans know to be true and which we rail against daily here on DU.
Lowering taxes creates jobs.
Social assistance breeds laziness.
The poor are poor because they; don't want to work/are lazy/are dumb/have no skills/etc.
Raising taxes forces employers to lay people off.
Shared sacrifice is required to fix our economy.
We can't afford to help working people get through this disaster.
Government is expensive and inefficient/private business is more efficient than government. And so on, ad infinitum.

More of us believe these lies than don't. The evidence doesn't matter because most people will never look at it, even if they hear that it exists. I assume that, since we are here, we don't wish to be like that.