snippets of thought.

have you ever noticed that little kids, when making games, tend to really emphasize (or make up) differences? like, it's really easy to put half the kids in blue shirts and half the kids in red shirts and make them separate. it's a game. it's actually a conscious decision to separate and divide, etc. at first, kids start making jokes to each other about how the people in the different colored shirts are not as good in some way, then they actually start to believe it. i, having been a small child recently, understand what this feels like. it actually feels like you're playing a pretend game where you don't like the other side, but you eventually start to believe it. i can't work out what darwinian function this instinct has. it's not beneficial to dislike what's different; it's beneficial to dislike what looks dangerous. i guess it's a side effect of the fact that different tribes of people would always be fighting with each other for whatever, so if someone looks or dresses differently, you're probably at war with them. but why did it turn out that way? that's the bit that i don't understand-why humans aren't communist by nature. when we have something and we meet someone else, we don't share it; we snatch it and hug it at our chests. i suppose it just turned out that way.