About 50% of people are left-wing, about 50% right wing. Probably just down to normal human variation. Doubt either side can ever win.
But centre varies so widely in time & place. Maybe what's innate is our tendency to take a position in relation to it.
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You're right again! Our current politics are off the map compared to social positions of centuries past.
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Interesting to see what a tendency to conservatism really is.
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I'm not sure, but it's interesting to consider that political orientation might just be a natural variation in people's brains.
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Some people seem naturally more predisposed to feelings of disgust, threat response & less inclined to rebelling against norms.
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Yes, I have seen this too but I think we can get a utopia. It's just that when we do, some ppl will reach for something else
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Perhaps the best we can do is a society in which l & r brains are equally unhappy. Which is pretty much what democracies do!
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But, I think it's healthy to just accept that there is a variety of brain-types. That people will never all think like you do.
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I think that too as long as it's a valuing diversity of ideas thing rather than a political apathy thing.
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Ppl who are v socially conservative now would be radically liberal for most of history but perhaps wld be conservative then
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OK, but it's complex, cos the r (and l) wing brain will respond differently according to perceived threats.
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In other words, it may be that the perceived threats have changed, not the variation in political types of brain.
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Yes, that's what I realised while tweeting & was trying to say.
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