sally vs russell

why is it human nature to want to pit two things against one another?

dog fights
girls vs boys
football matches
wrestling
wars
team jacob vs team edward
heaven vs hell

why is there a constant need to have a vindicated winner and loser?
one superior to the other; who is now wounded either emotionally or physically from the conflict.

even if we seem to mean it in a joking way, the subconcious desire to eliminate the weaker ones and to triumph with the victor always seems present. what can we take from this subconcious urge to self serve and to belittle others?

does this go back to our caveman days where survival of the fittest was the only way to progress or have we winched ourselves so high up on the hierarchal table that we have lost sight of what put us there in the first place? are we, by our own terms, behaving like animals? hiding our still barbaric and basal needs behind banking systems, 6.8 litres engines and an air of sophistication?

even in global terms we find the need to grade things from best to worst
(1st world countries and 3rd world countries anyone?)
yet we scorned and criticised pretty much everyone from the middle ages to the 1800s when we saw how much they relied on their social system.

maybe our need to derogate others comes from the fact that it is so frowned upon in our day and age. we never got to act like primates, were never given the chance to act without consequence and have never lived in a world without morals and ethics.

somehow, i believe the latter to be an excuse for the truth that we are surrounded by.

perception vs reality. how ironic.