While creativity and solidarity form the main constructive profile
for our species, the primal animal drive for dominance involving
basal brain circuits places our future at risk. This bipolar nature
distorts the global perspective of our collective future and
ecological conditions. Our species' behavioural construction has
its roots in ancestral habits and survival drives that were
crystallized in basic neurobehavioral circuits over millennia, be
it as predators or potential prey. Its expression acquired further
complexity through the development of social/cultural cues, and was
kept-in-check by conditional inhibitory processes. How much of our
current drive - individually and as a global community - is caused
by those inherited traits imprinted in our animal condition? This
book analyses the increasing bipolar construction in terms of
dominant groups affecting critical access to current knowledge and
information, a profound gap among populations concerning a modern
humane quality of life, and present trends pertaining to our
ecological habitat. These dynamic processes seem to be in a
free-running mode, only conditioned by the prevalence of power
concentration in the hands of worldwide minority groups. This
worldwide disjointed perspective is further distorted by diverse
cultural profiles and interests accessing information and its
impact on lifestyles. Our species' true nature has highly conserved
remnants of our animal origin expressed as animal drives embodied
before and during the evolutionary process as Homo and under
inhibitory social control. These involve territorial, survival, and
dominant cues on top of which sapiens' cultural development
profiles have taken place; that is, the hidden ancestral human
nature. Competition to control and prevail in those domains has
unveiled a long-lived struggle for dominance in political and
financial (corporate- or state-bound) prevalence. Below this
stratum of power-seekers, a large proportion of the service-bound
and marginal populations crawl for their survival, often
approaching inhuman conditions. Fundamentalist beliefs, the
disregard of environmental abuse, belligerence to resolve
discrepancies, personal and group-centred greed, growing
inequalities, disinformation from dominant carriers, and
intolerance to alternative viewpoints describe our species'
developmentally immature collective behaviour. If not just an
evolutionary stage, then we in fact belong to the "wrong species"
(Colombo, 2010), and are on a path toward our demise or a bipolar
evolution of our species, but not necessarily a collective,
cooperative, shared development that respects various cultural
profiles. The increasing speed of knowledge development widens the
gap among populations with different cultural values and those that
are underdeveloped or living in subhuman conditions. Since we
exited the period of egalitarian-prone hunter gatherers, we have
been conditioned by elite or institutionalized dominant powers and
given limited access to information, which is used as a means for
domination. Hence, our future depends not only on our social,
political, and financial decision-makers but also on the degree of
our permissive, functional absence from such a scenario.
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