It’s clear that in reality the desired dominance works with forced cooperation, but I won’t open America to you here. But you might be interested to know why this is so. But it’s all about fear. Since we are very primitive monkeys, our thinking is very local. Just like a couple of million years ago. It's as if nothing has changed. Our heads are not designed to think globally, since in nature there is no way to move so far and communicate so much to cover the entire globe. All this was invented quite recently. Just fresh. So instinct tells us to save the child first, because he will have more chances to reproduce than his parents, simply because of the number of years ahead. And the instructions say to put the mask on yourself first. He repeats this persistently! Because in nature it is impossible to be at an altitude of 10 km, where there is no oxygen and the temperature is minus 60. So you have to act through the neocortex, although in fact this is impossible under stress. So we repeat, so that it reaches the cerebellum. The same is true in interactions with other individuals. The idea is that the genes should be placed on us from a high tower, so that the entire species does not become extinct and the copying continues. Therefore, society is more important than the individual. On the other hand, each gene “wants” to survive individually, therefore, it is necessary to pull the blanket on itself. And this is scary, because everyone does this, so there are enemies all around. But if there are larger and more external enemies, then we can and should unite. Then we will fall out again, of course, but for now we are a team and strength. Strength! Not knowledge, not skills, not love, not creativity, not strategic goals of evolution. It's just strength and survival. Preferably at someone else's expense - it's more profitable. Therefore, the one who is stronger, not the more worthy, commands. This is dominance, that very patriarchy. At the heart of Game Theory is the prisoners' paradox, which experimentally proves that people, like other creatures, are completely unwilling to cooperate, unless it is critical. Surprisingly, it doesn’t matter at all whether the motivation is negative or positive. In any case, they will set each other up, don’t go to grandma! Cooperation comes from love and creativity, a thirst for truth and results, and not victory in a hierarchical race. Cooperation is always chosen only by those who already have sufficiently global thinking and a focus on development. And the frightened desire to present oneself in a favorable light and to be in charge is reduced to a minimum. These are the pies. Try not to judge anyone, compare or be offended by anyone - for your own health and evolution. It's all just chemistry and electrical impulses in neurons. It’s good that at least it works like that)) Author - psychologist Andrei Yagodzinsky