if it is indeed true that the root of all of the things that living things do is about getting food then everything else they do is a spare time activity. all of those other exciting things that they do have the same essential "desire structure" as the food seeking. symptoms of dissatisfaction variously in the system, rumble in stomach, wanting - something. also, that these non-food avocational desires emerge out of food satiety or maybe out of surplus as in hey that was good, let's go out and do something. burn off the food, hey, let's get some more food. etc.
different things to get excited about. tribes form: afficionados of this or that. tribalism i guess comes from the bacterial level? (are viruses evolutionarily "lower" or are they parasitic bacterial fragments?) bacteria & viruses do not cannibalize do they? anyway, not the norm. tribalism - concept of us against them. a recognition of the existence of a family. things out "there" that are tasty but are not food. you don't eat them even though you could.
the bacteria emit chemicals that others of their type recognize, i don't know what the viruses do to talk with each other. chemicals? electrical gradients?
the first thing living things do when there is plenty of food is reproduce.
no, i'm not done with the victor-victim thing.
different things to get excited about. some of us hunt, shoot, birdwatch, people watch, tv watch, make things, drink alcohol, dress up, humiliate people, get angry, eat, make food, dance, build, scheme, collect, go fast, be alone, read, paint, exercise, preach, pray, shmooze, organize, write, joke, take care of animals, kill animals, etc. something. people who claim to have nothing, hey: that is a nothing-shaped something. if you can read this you can recognize that empty what's-the-use mental place as a decorator style. i watch myself watching my self in my lonely room. it is a room, it is not me. i can go out into another room. i can. frederick douglass woke up in jail. all of his people: life sentence, every angle turned to keep them from waking up, he awoke anyway. trying to stay awake, at any moment perhaps they will forget to lock the door.
a future of fully privatized water. if you can't pay for good water you can get bootleg water, or maybe you can't afford any in texas and you can die. a future of privatized oxygen. the rich live and the poor die. too bad say the rich. things are getting better now they will say.
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