Thread:MirageFire/@comment-25689453-20150722165108/@comment-25689453-20150824172826

I'm afraid I don't know what you mean, but sure, I guess? OuO

Remember what Charles Darwin said? "It is not the strongest of species that survive, nor it is the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to changes." We humans, along with many other species of animals out there, managed to survive and thrive today because we are adaptable to the changes around us.

But willpower and resolve alone will not allow you to pass through Natural selection's high passing grade, You need the skills to survive in this tough world. If chameleons have camouflage as their skill, and geckos have the ability to cut off their tail whenever necessary, then humans' skill will be their technology.

It is because of that technology that humans have achieved the highest-level of authority on this world, governing all animals and plants below them. However, even after reigning over the world, humans' greedy nature always made them felt that the technology was not good enough, so they strive to make better stuff.

It is their natural instinct of survival, that is the driving force behind the many inventions. Even in modern big cities today, humans' animalistic survival instinct still burns within them, but it now works in another way. Where in the days past, one's natural instinct of survival acted when stimulated by a life-threatening event, today, one's natural instinct of survival reacted to pretty much the same stimuli which is the feeling of being threatened, but less life-threatening.

To put it into simpler terms, Let's say that there are two rival shoe companies. One day, company A made a good shoe that became a trend in the city the shoe companies are in. Company B thought that company A's success is threatening the Survival of their company, and thus strive and managed to create a better shoe, which became a trend in the country they are in. Company A, too will feel threatened by Company B's success, and their survival instincts will make them strive to create an even better shoe, and the chain reaction will continue forth so long as they don't run out of necessary materials. -w-

I think competition is also a good word to describe this phenomenon, but I do believe that it is the natural survival instinct within humans, the thing that they carried in their genes from the age of their ancestors, that gives them the burning feeling of the need to become better. At least, imo ouo