Yes. People don’t realize how much of our daily behavior is ape instincts and not conscious decision.

And over the last few years i came to realize that our territorial instincts and survival instincts/greed are still too strong for a long-time stable world community.

Edit: well, the article says basically the same. Mea culpa, i commented before reading again.

I’d argue that as long as we spend over 20% or more of our waking time taking care of our “base animal needs” (eat, sleep, fight, flight, …) we’re primitive. And unless someone comes up with something radically transhumanist in the next few years, this won’t change for centuries to come.

Are we still primitive?

Compared to whom?

We somehow value the things that make us primal more than anything else, love, strong emotions, conflict (can’t have a good story without an antagonist), dominating, ownership of mates through marriage

Even if given a chance to eliminate the primal side, humans would collectively say “No! Thats What makes us human!” As if somehow the culmination of all that awful stuff somehow has innate worth? Existence somehow isn’t worth living without conflict, lust, overcoming terrible odds, etc?

Primitive is a relative term. As long as we continue to progress, we won’t be primitive for the current time. But, would be considered primitive in the future.