Left/Right makes it seem like there is a natural 50-50 split in the collective psyche. There isn’t. The human psyche is default right-wing. Varied liberalisms have acquired a persistent foothold only in last 200 years because they are an adaptive memetic mutation for modernity.
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Wouldn’t human default behavior be closer to the hunter-gatherer societies that evolved over millennia, not the last 5K years since the discovery of agriculture and appearance of institutionalized power hierarchies?https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22071-inequality-why-egalitarian-societies-died-out/ …
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Generally I’d agree, but politics is specifically stuff that happens at larger-than-Dunbar scale in post agriculture societies.
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