Rather then being neurological wired to compete we are actually empathic. This means that we can't fall prey to the usual shrug following diagnosis of war, or selfishness, or greed because "the human condition" is not inherently a Machiavellian one.
This empathic drive is described by Jeremy Rifkin as something that allows us to extend our "families" to religious or political or national association. He goes so far as to say that empathic potential, combined with the internet and technologies that connect us to people all over the world, means we can extend our notion of "families" and rethink our human narrative to include empathic socialization. In other words, if you are familiar with the in group bias this means that we would extend our in group to all of humanity by accepting our primary nature to feel compassion for one another.
For more on cooperation instead of competition see here.
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