Yes, we always have. That evo psych book on leadership covers this. Having knowledge improves status & largely explains mansplaining.
Not enough time to predict a pattern. Except that reason seems to be a luxury afforded those who don't have to worry about existence.
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Reason by its very nature has a direction - towards increasing knowledge.
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But it needs people to value it & keep valuing it & we are largely irrational & can be tempted back to in when we feel under threat.
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Although at times of crisis, it wld be much better if everyone tried to be more reasonable, in reality, they usually get less so.
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Argh, plague! Lets kill lots of Jews. Argh refugee crisis! Lets polarise over whether this is any kind of threat & take extreme positions.
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As soon as we're under threat, it goes out of the window and people get reactionary & superstitious and paranoid and weird.
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