Alison Malisa
1 min readMar 7, 2022

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We largely do not see the dogma. Partly because we attempt to explain reality with brains operating from within the context of an economic system that frames our thinking (aka: boxes it in). Economic assumptions are thus superimposed on natural law. "Survival of the fittest" is a perfect example. This puts our brains in a limbic response- as we experience perpetual and punishing competition amidst a state of "scarcity"- another economic assumption. Self-referentially, Western male minds designed a system to suit their self-interest, and used that system to describe nature and therefore, justify the system itself. A system that, among other things, is ramping up rainforest destruction and hoarding private digital assets represent nothing more than ruinous energy consumption, ideology, and hype. So a cognitive framework that perceives "survival of the fittest" as fundamental law of nature, isolates and perverts "self-interest" so that it is ignoring directs our attention and reinforces a skewed primacy of self-interest that, through confirmation bias, ignores the evolutionary power of cooperation. How might multi-level selection theory influence the design of economic ecosystems that heal economic trauma and cultivate a deeper purpose peace and regeneration. Peace and regeneration are also in our self-interest. The truth of prosocial self-interest versus anti-social self interest (which is the result of PTSD from economic trauma) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270869555_Rethinking_economics_from_an_evolutionary_perspective

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Alison Malisa
Alison Malisa

Written by Alison Malisa

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