Prompt: Why do individuals band together into society?
Darwin once stated the facts of evolution, and the means of natural selection. Similar systems to natural selection can be seen in many human constructs such as capitalism, in where the weaker business dies and the stronger ones move on until taken by a better, more efficient company.
I believe that the ability to form communities is a way that us, as homo sapiens found to improve our chances at survival. The creation of groups, weather it be a pack for hunting, a flock for travel, or a herd for safety. Humans formed communities because it helped us accomplish goals together that would have been impossible separately. It created a more efficient, and stronger "organism" made from multiple independent individuals.
With a community comes issues that result from differences between individuals, but these differences create strength, the variation gives a wide spread of ideas and ideals to the community and a form of "natural selection" happens once more. Ideas that do not make sense get exchanged for ones that do, the longer an idea lasts, and the more changes that are made to it the more refined it can become. The same goes for beliefs and ideals.
The faith in Zeus and the greek gods is gone. The thought of slavery being a good thing is dead. That is because ridiculous ideas get thrown to the road side, while the good ones survive.
Our entire existence depends on communities, they developed our current technology from rocks to computers, because with out a group of people any improvements made by a single person would only be for that one person, and only for one lifetime.
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