Examples of Primate Psychology in the Common Place

This posting started out as an attempt to articulate primate behaviour from a non-primate perspective. In the process a realization occurred that this was an example of primate behaviour to mimic / mirror primate behaviour:

• In sports, e.g., world football, we have teams from many countries playing. However, there is only one final winner / champion. The champion and their country  are very happy / satisfied at the end of the tournament. However, every other participant and their countries are quite unhappy.
  
  From the perspective of an optimization problem, this result is rather strange, i.e., to make a very small minority of the world happy and the rest of the world unhappy? That we have such games and processes can be taken to be an aspect of our primate / mammalian psychology that we take for granted. Perhaps akin to their being only one alpha in a group, one god of existence, one unified field theory, ....
   
•  In celebrations and commemorations, e.g., Bastille day, Armistice day, D-Day,  7/11 - there is a remembrance with joy or sorrow of an event. However, the celebrations don't focus on learning from that event, the causes that led to it, and how we can avoid repeats of those events. Would it be better to have days of mourning and learning for how we let these kinds of events happen over and over and do not learn from them by  getting at the root causes of these events? For example, the vengefulness at the end of WW I that led to measures that resulted in WWII. And the measures at the end of WWII that led to an extended cold war and its side effects of a covert war among the world powers that had devastating consequences in arresting the development of the third world. And now the repeat pattern happening with China, Russia, ....
• Vulnerability, facades, and elephants in the room: It seems like evolutionarily, genes have learned not to show any kind of vulnerability. It tends to make one a prey. The form of it now extant in cultures and societies is sometimes called saving face, keep a stiff upper lip, dignity, reputation, safeguard, preserve, ... In practice, then one doesn't, as a rule, admit a mistake at the individual, group, corporation, state level. And that tends to limit one's learning from that experience.
• Sphere of optimization - there are various names for this behaviour:
• Corruption is really a very local optimization for one's own gain. The sphere can be an individual, family, group, tribe, nation, ..
• Short sightedness is optimizing in a limited time sphere. Sometimes determined by the length of a primate lifespan or sometimes even shorter than that.
• Greed or opportunism is a bit non linear with sphere. An example of this is the setting of laws, policies with a certain intent. Overtime that intent is disregarded and the law / policy used / bent to suit one's own interest / greed / opportunity. A specific example of this is intellectual property law. It was created with the intent of rewarding creativity and the creator. Now there are corporations that specifically buy patents just for the purpose of exploiting them with no creativity of their own. Another example is that in most companies when they hire people they require the people to transfer all creative ownership / patent rights to the company.
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