PET PEEVE: Theorists who use "superstition" as a buck-stopping explanation for broad patterns of human behavior. Below: A passage from "The Origins of Political Order" by Francis Fukuyamapic.twitter.com/gEGTidYCuW
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I mean shared ethnicity or religion serving as a focal point of cooperation in the same way distant kin relations do. Interestingly, if a universalist religion becomes too successful in society, then it loses that function as there's no distinction to make
Yeah, great point. Maybe when a religion becomes hyper successful like that, it turns inward. So the good parts of us are all on Team God and have to unite against the evil parts
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Interesting to think about the ways in which religions become universalized, often for the purposes of rulers, while kin selection, tribalism, and more parochial religions are ground up phenomena. Historically, nationalism is similarly seen as top-down phenomenon by most scholars
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