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“If genetic evolution was able to fine-tune our bones, teeth, skin, and metabolism in just a few thousand years as our diets and climates changed, how could genetic evolution not have tinkered with our brains and behaviors as our social environments underwent the most radical transformation in primate history?”

When do we start properly talking about politicians this is boring and too psychological

Every time I pick up this book I just feel like WTF IS GOING ON 😫😫 Idk if it’s because I don’t take psychology as an a level or what but I don’t really understand anything this man is saying it all feels like random spontaneous waffle. None of the chapter titles end up relating to what he goes on about and what the hell is this elephant rider metaphor 😭😭

“The coevolution of tribal minds and tribal cultures didn't just prepare us for war; it also prepared us for far more peaceful coexistence within our groups, and, in modern times, for cooperation on a vast scale as well.”

“These tribal instincts are a kind of overlay, a set of groupish emotions and mental mechanisms laid down over our older and more selfish primate nature. It may sound depressing to think that our righteous minds are basically tribal minds, but consider the alternative. Our tribal minds make it easy to divide us, but without our long period of tribal living there'd be nothing to divide in the first place.”