Geoffrey MillerVerified account

We're just the latest crew to take over an ongoing project, which none of us will live to see completed.

That moment when an evolutionary psychologist fails to understand that among the evolutionary functions of shame includes preserving cultural legacies social order depends upon.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1161631505887535104?s=20 …

The whole world existed in misery, slavery and death. American culture is what ended all of that.

FWIW. The imposition of a moral imperative to "respect" ancestors is similar to the tenet "the proper study of mankind is man" (A. Pope). We are born innocent, life is finite. We cannot learn everything; can't know it all. We can doubt what we do know, and doubt may be justified.

Surprisingly that list gave me a flashback to the game Age of Empires. That and Civilization. Both amazing games with how much they can teach you while you beat your friends to a pulp.

I was just thinking about how the Bible - even if you leave God out of it - represents thousands of years of the accumulated wisdom of mankind. We ignore it to our detriment.

I have one adult child who has always been willing to act on others' wisdom. He has a great life. I have another adult child who has to learn everything the hard way. She has a miserable and desperate life. The same applies to mankind.

Ev Psy is mostly “just so” stories to provide a narrative for theories and beliefs. We have direct access to human minds and written records from the greatest minds of the past several thousand years. Speculating about Neolithic living conditions isn’t necessary.