Hens in a Ciruela Tree: Why People in English-Speaking Countries Behave the Way They Do

Anthropology departments do not yet offer a course on Anglo culture. There is a fear that if students are permitted to look into forbidden mirrors, they might find an image that they are not prepared to see. Watching how hens self-organize at night, when they are in a more natural environment and exposed to predators, reveals that English-speakers who describe themselves as representatives of the culture most distant from man's natural state, actually perpetuate a way of life that is the least removed from the natural behavior of a social animal. That behavior relates to risk-position, and although overt conflict in the Anglosphere appears to be well-controlled, primordial risk-avoidance behavior is not well-controlled. The latest theories on risk-position behavior from evolutionary biologists illuminate the rise of Anglo-capitalism, the way trait-sharers and trait-aliens treat one another, clarify the deep dissimilarity of Mexican culture and American culture, and explain why the Chinese strive to keep people working while the English direct their finest technological efforts to the automation and computerization of jobs. When the curtains are drawn from one of the forbidden mirrors, that of biological anthropology, what is revealed is why this new perspective is feared: because it is too frighteningly clear, accurate, and explanatory.