Theory:
In our ancestral environment, the link between bad idea and failure is obvious and we adjust our psychology accordingly in order to survive. In our complex modern environment, the link between bad ideas and failure is not obvious and so they are retained and proliferate.
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BONUS theory:
This absence of an effective regulatory feedback loop for our ideas is partly what makes philosophy such a no-man's-land, and conversations between competing ideologies so difficult--no one can effectively prove or falsify anything.
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most ideas end up divorced from their contexts
Think map and territory
Ancestral environment held the territory constant so the map was pretty much always right. Now maps can travel, the map that worked for you might not work for me
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This characterization reminds me of one of the main differences between the private sector and the public sector.
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