The most fundamental mindsets are those that involve maintenance.
The first one being maintenance of our own life and those we associate being connected to ourselves. All living beings have it in their mind to keep their own life going. It could be through their own immediate life, family, friends, or even something more abstract as legacy, status, or social capital.
The next most fundamental mindset is maintenance of mindset itself. The narratives that we grow into or learn about ourselves and the world around us, and our beliefs of how we fit into the larger picture of it all. We strongly believe in our roles, our identities, and will defend it to the point of a "willingness to give up one's own life" for the sake of defending those narratives. We are able and willing to take other lives, as well as dying ourselves in order to keep the mindsets we have somehow adopted alive. We can delude ourselves into believing we are "sacrificing", when in fact we are still attempting to maintain and defend something very abstract through that act of "sacrifice."
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