Tbh it’s quite surprising how ridiculously illogical/immune to evidence humans can be. Anyone have any ideas why these anti-evolution beliefs are so rewarded? And haven’t died out? https://twitter.com/chrismassie/status/938833735893561350 …
Breaking someone's epistemology helps in aligning their individual higher purposes so they can noncoercively negotiate cooperation and submission to shared norms, and to make them incompatible with the higher purposes of competing groups.