Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression
Tribalism is just what selfishness looks like up on the group level.
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
Your Primitive Mind disagrees. For your genes, what’s important is holding beliefs that generate the best kinds of survival behavior—whether or not those beliefs are actually true.1 The Primitive Mind’s beliefs are usually installed early on in life, often based on the prevailing beliefs of your family, peer group, or broader community. The Primiti
... See moreTim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
those who don’t identify with a tight-knit community inevitably undervalue the moral foundations, loyalty and restraint, that require a community, an attitude that further alienates them from any such community; these indispensable moral foundations are thus liable to continue to lose appeal.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Your Primitive Mind disagrees. For your genes, what’s important is holding beliefs that generate the best kinds of survival behavior—whether or not those beliefs are actually true.1 The Primitive Mind’s beliefs are usually installed early on in life, often based on the prevailing beliefs of your family, peer group, or broader community. The Primiti
... See moreTim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
cultures: all societies must resolve a small set of questions about how to order society, the most important being how to balance the needs of individuals and groups.