There’s always been an ad-hoc evolutionary explanation for schizophrenia: people with intense paranoid delusions exist because people with milder paranoid delusions have a social advantage. These on-the-spectrum schizos gain influence by convincing others they know about hidden harms.
The current media landscape has made this much easier to believe.
It’s criminal the CEO makes 400X what the average worker makes but it’s perfectly fine that Taylor Swift makes 100000X more than the people who clean the arena after her concerts. A just society is one that rewards the exceptional qualities of the musician but not the executive.
Men are more sexually jealous in cultures where paternal investment is higher.
Plain language: Men are more worried about cuckoldry in cultures where it would be costlier to be cuckolded.
Always remarkable, to me, how context-sensitive and adaptable our evolved psychology is.
“If you somehow… gave ownership of the land to the last recorded tribe that had occupied it before, you would not be returning it to its original occupants; you would simply be handing it to the next-most-recent conquerors.”
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The response is cleanly divided between people who want to build a political movement so they can make people's life better with people who just want to LARP & be morally correct
In scientifically naive cultures, whatever can’t be explained mechanistically is explained in terms of mysterious supernatural forces that predict nothing and explain everything (gods, demons, spirits, charms, curses, omens, etc). In the leftoid mind, “Greed” is this mysterious supernatural force that explains economic phenomena. It’s a superstition, just like medieval superstitions. Price controls are modern day witch burnings.