what does it say about society that it takes courage to follow one's intuitions?
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I think this is a fairly fundamental human problem, although it's pretty hard to separate out centuries of deliberate and accidental social engineering from whatever species-level substrate.
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i wonder if there have been times and places where intuitions were trusted and relied upon more than today (inb4 it's an overgeneralization)
ancient Greece? bicameral mind?
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Specific cities and eras, certainly, by all available historical evidence.
It's more, I think, about competitive pressures. Ideological buy-in seems to be fairly fundamental to how the modern (super)state structures itself.
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