gerald lindner
Mar 29, 2023

There is a third option:) genetic selection [domestication]. In The Secret Of Our Success anthropologist, Joseph Henrich points out the following:

"Humans evolved to transmit culture with high fidelity. And 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 [ethical programming] to give people an internalized fear [moral] of even trying.”*

They did a pretty good job of it. As hence only 10% of humanity consists of logical abstract thinkers (NT profiles)** the majority are ST-SF (short-term-seeing & feeling-is-beliving).

*Scott Alexander Siskind's book review

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

**18.1 Personality pages 304-308, see Figure 18.3

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

gerald lindner
gerald lindner

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My 3 continents, 5 countries youth deconstructed most cultural lock-ins and social biases. It opened my mind to parallel views and fundamental innovations.

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