Well it's a pretty bad analogy then, because the take-home from a human building a fire in the forest is that they're much safer by doing so, for several reasons. Fire is kind of a human superpower.
In an environment full of explorers, a fire is more likely to draw friends than enemies, and the survival rate of humans goes WAY the hell up when there are more of them around. With no fire you spend every night cold, exposed to wildlife, and vulnerable to quite a lot more disease from eating uncooked food and unboiled water. The analogy sucks.
Draw from other realms of human experience. What happens to families that isolate out of paranoia? To towns? To countries? The lesson is pretty clear: They fall behind technologically, they fail to accumulate allies, they remain unaware of external threats, and their paranoia causes internal problems.
Case in point: Russia.
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Date: 26/2/23 05:10 (UTC)In an environment full of explorers, a fire is more likely to draw friends than enemies, and the survival rate of humans goes WAY the hell up when there are more of them around. With no fire you spend every night cold, exposed to wildlife, and vulnerable to quite a lot more disease from eating uncooked food and unboiled water. The analogy sucks.
Draw from other realms of human experience. What happens to families that isolate out of paranoia? To towns? To countries? The lesson is pretty clear: They fall behind technologically, they fail to accumulate allies, they remain unaware of external threats, and their paranoia causes internal problems.
Case in point: Russia.