In his book The Secret Of Our Success, anthropologist Joseph Henrich states that humans evolved to transmit culture with high fidelity. One of the biggest threats to transmitting culture with high fidelity was Reason. [...] Historically Reason has been the villain of the human narrative [..] so evolution removed those genes from the population and successful cultures stigmatized them enough to give people an internalized fear of even trying. :)

Enjoy Scott Alexander Siskind's book review >

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/

That fits in tightly with what Prof. T. W. Murphy points out. Only 10% of humanity consists of logical abstract thinkers (MyerBriggs NT profiles). The rest, the vast majority (the ST-SF gene pool) are primarily sentients (thus extremely short-term-minded -seeing & feeling-is-beliving -my words).

Source > 18.1 Personality pages 304-308, see Figure 18.3 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m