I disagree here too. I believe we are equally wired for collective action as we are for selfishness and immediacy.

You have to survive to reach the point of being able to reproduce and there is no doubt that with humans collective action is necessary for that to happen. We simply would not be a social species if we were not wired for collective action. Without it, there would be no reproductive success, so there’s evolution in action.

The issue is brain programing. Human brains are incredibly plastic. I think of it like channel programming. Even though as a species, we are wired for both selfishness and collective action, it is our cultures that program the channel we interact on, and ours is programmed for selfishness.

When you look at other cultures though, you see collective action in primacy much more readily. People just think differently. They think of themselves and competition last, not first. They think of themselves as part of a whole more than as an individual.

Thanks for your comment though.