Grovelling for Survival .

Grovelling for Survival

Andre Willers

25 Apr 2013

Synopsis :

Evolution is 1/3 competition and 2/3 cooperation . This is reflected in human word frequencies . humans grovel through alliances , or plain abasement .

 

Discussion :

1. The 1/3 ratio’s have been established in in http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/01/infinite-probes-in-optimization.html . They are universal , but interpretation can be tricky .

2.See Appendix A . The synonym-antonym ratio’s . This can do with considerable expansion , but the pattern seems clear . Cooperation is favoured by 2/3 .

3. Why grovelling ?

Because most social systems are hierarchical in a fractal fashion .

See http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=16105240#editor/target=post;postID=6621062349285795072;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=43;src=postname

The Sierpinsky systems optimize on obedience . Ie grovelling . Every human is both a tyrant and a groveller .

 

4. A teensy conflict . There is a bottom floor on the optimum number of grovelers , namely 1 263 .

See http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=16105240#editor/target=post;postID=2630105067710365480;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=27;src=postname

 

5. This churns the system .

As the system grows more efficient , there is less room for new entrants . This leads to revolution .

Typical is  Luther : “Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”

Speech at the Diet of Worms (1521), reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 186; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

6. How to grovel :

Amazingly , I could find only one website on this important social skill . http://evilhow.com/tiki-index.php?page=How+to+grovel

Are we supposed to grow up knowing how to cooperate , grovel , compete ? They laughingly call it socialization . No wonder there is such a plethora of human and physical ruins due to civil wars . See http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=16105240#editor/target=post;postID=2256036101825330840;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=18;src=postname

 

I could not find any Dummy or Idiots guide on how to grovel . Or anything on Google . Yet it is a fundamental skill to survive in any hierarchical social system .

 

7.  How to be a bully .

The companion volume .

Obedience in 1/3 of the population can only be compelled . (Laws) . For this we need enforcers . Bullies .

 

8. Most humans are simultaneously bullies and grovelers . The trick is to do it so the social is fabric  is enhanced .

 All that yakkity-yak about discipline and leadership .

This can be trained , but can we have some manuals ?

 

9.Teenagers :

They really need it . Even whenthey want to grovel , they don’t know how to . This appears as rebelliousness to the parent .

 

“Hear and tremblingly obey !”

 

Andre

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Appendix A

http://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/grovel

I added some words . More work is needed . But the ratio of antonyms to synonyms is about 1/3 , as expected .

Synonyms for grovel

Listen See in DictionarySee in a sentence

verb

crawl, cringe, fawn, fawn upon, beg, sneak, stoop, kneel, crouch before,truckle, kowtow, implore, toady, sponge, cower, snivel, beseech, wheedle,blandish, flatter, cater to, humor, pamper, curry favor with, make much of,court, act up to, play up to*, beg for mercy, prostrate, reverence, eat humble pie*, soft-soap*, butter up*, make up to*, kiss one's feet*, lick the dust*, dance attendance on*, lick another's boots*, knuckle under*, polish the apple*, eat dirt*, brown-nose*, suck up to*, shine up to*, kiss up to*. (45 items)

ANTONYMS hate*, spurn, scorn.boast , swagger ,strut ,refuse , recalcitrant ,uncooperative , rebellious , treacherous, revolutionary , seditious , ungovernable  ( 14 items)

Ratio of synonyms to (synonyms+antonyms) = 45/69= 0.65. .

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