Many human-made products are presented as "natural". Ingredients that are obviously not natural are called as "identical to nature". Naturalization is not just a discursive operation invented for the sales of industrial foods. Constantly transforming social and economic relations are also defined and defended with reference to nature: Competitive market rules, wars, and even capitalism is claimed to be natural.
Economic systems, however, do not have the enormous balance and functioning of the nature: Recent history is full of state interventions that disregard the principle of competition, and operations which transfers capital between individuals or institutions.
The amygdala manages emotional memory and responses in the human brain. It is the part that makes us freeze, flee, or attack in a state of fear. It is obvious that when a person encounters a danger, the amygdala pushes the button. Is it possible to identify the same function in any conflict in our modern life?
Do institutions or states have their own amygdala? Or, is it an unnatural idea in full operation today, which finds its clearest expression in the late Jack Welch’s motto: “Buy or bury the competition.”
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