Quarantine for honey. Arya Gotsdanker - about poisoned traps

It is interesting to observe various behavioral strategies that animals developed during evolution. There is a fairly rare type of Kunih family - honey. The animal is so aggressive that the Guinness Book of Records proclaimed it "the most fearless animal in the world." Honey, with his small weight from 7 to 13 kilograms, boldly attacks large animals. Having determined the size of his fairly spacious hunting grounds, the male honey male with amazing fearlessness attacks everyone who will suspect in the claim to his territory, even if a large buffalo is faced with him. When the enemy decides to retire, the honeyian will continue the persecution, and if he is forced to retreat, then only temporarily. He has no less vengeance than fearlessness and aggression, in addition to this, like Skunas, he knows how to exude a stinking smell. The buffalo, with all his superiority, is easier to retreat than to get involved in a conflict with a honey.

During my childhood, we had one teenager in our yard nicknamed the cord. He was medium -sized, one might even say, small, not particularly strength, cunning, and did not stand out with his mind. But he was surprisingly aggressive and vengeful. When something went on his liking, when someone claimed that he was interested (whether it was a swing, a football ball, but anything), then he threw himself and fought with a frenzy with the offender. The more he got from the older guys, the more frenzy he continued to fight with them. When there was no strength left, the cord still got up and threw stones, sticks, tried to fly, bite. As a result, with the complete power of his opponents - they were forced to retire. And this did not stop the cord: the next day he waited for his offenders to throw a stone in them or pour paint. Revenge and meanness, let's say culturally - "love for asymmetric actions", he could not occupy.

After some time, the cord realized that his tactics was working, that the courtyard punks stopped contacting him, and he probably felt like the main authority. He began to expand his territory, go to other people's courtyards, drive and take away toys from everyone he could reach. But his triumph did not last long. No matter how he wanted, he did not become a leader. Not only his peers, but also the baby refused to play with the cord.

The story with the cord ended, as they would say in the era of coronavirus, self -isolation

After some time, everyone realized what this new authority was, and simply began to avoid it. It turns out such a small shock with a proud gait in the courtyard for a walk, and all the children go to another site. While some children run around the courtyard, playing on a sak or football, there was no choice but to do anything but to walk and kick stones from loneliness. Even if he managed to select a ball or a bicycle, then still no one wanted to play with him. The children stopped fighting for the selected ball or scooter, knowing that after a while he would leave prey and, bored, go home. Like in a fairy tale about the golden antelop , which got, which, the greedy Raja found himself at a broken trough.

The story with the cord ended, as they would say in the era of coronavirus, self -isolation. He stopped going out into the yard - and really, what's the point if no one plays with you? The toys selected from other toys ceased to give him pleasure. Nobody appreciated the earned "authority", so much effort was spent on "gaining positions", and everything led to a deplorable result - the cord became an outcast and insulated itself from society. I don’t know how his fate was further, but I think that one of two is possible: either he was cured and “took off the crown”, learned to be more social, show more altruism and respect the interests of others, or became embittered and closed even more tightly in his loneliness.

Returning to the honey: evolution showed that his behavior is not the most successful strategy, since this species is quite rare, which did not receive an evolutionary advantage. And today this animal is generally on the verge of survival. Farmers are tired of struggle with ruined chicken coins and apiary and found an effective way to exterminate honeyians: poisoned traps, into which animals led by greed often fall.

Is it possible to draw a parallel between the behavioral strategy of the honey and foreign policy of Russia? If there are similar features, it is clear: it is unlikely that such a strategy will pass the test of time and show effectiveness. With a high probability, the extracted authority will be “swollen” in such labor. If you want, you don’t want to - you will have to go on quarantine until the “partners from OPEC” will arrange poisoned traps around.

Arya Gotsdanker - organizational psychologist

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