When I asked him for clarification, Bill went on a tirade about how absurd it is to put brands like the AP and Reuters in the center and not further left, finishing with some angry thing about “The Precious,” which is his term for how he thinks I think of Obama.
We need to be smarter than that. In other words, to survive through human history, it makes sense that our genes had to be good at competing as an individual against their brother Our society today is, in its own way, still a game of giants. When my tortoise Winston is scared, he tucks his head and his limbs into his shell.

And it went beyond pro-Trump material. He crunched the traditional five-day legislative schedule into three days. But selfish spider behavior is a luxury of safe times, and as other groups entered the scene, the brothers had bigger problems on their hands than their dislike of each other. The U.S. giant has fallen ill, and this visual is one of the symptoms.We started this post looking at two well-documented trends in the U.S.: increasing polarization amongst citizens and within government. Sometimes the contexts have quite narrow boundaries. I remember thinking that while an alien attack would suck overall, it would do wonders for species solidarity.In each case, human dickishness is running at full force—the thing that’s changing is the size of the giants that are being dicks to each other.Human evolution has probably been influenced by the entire human emergence range. I had a lot of work to do, so I held down the Command key and clicked on all nine, opening them in nine new tabs, and watched them all. Part of us—our Higher Minds—are right in their natural habitat, like bullied nerds who finally graduated high school and moved to a place where they can be themselves. Don't be fooled by my ridiculously cute drawing.

I have so much to say about what's going on, and it's all in the next post. It happens on a smaller scale too, like when people who have spent their lives showing no compassion or understanding for a certain type of outsider suddenly have a warm heart when someone in their family ends up as part of that group.Selective kindness isn’t high-mindedness.

When it’s luring in your Primitive Mind against your Higher Mind’s will, the relationship is parasitic.So how does this apply to politics? Something else is going on here.When the Value Games are working properly, people holding the most extreme views are relegated to the fringes—retaining enough of a voice to effect change when they’re right about something but unable to do too much damage when, more often, they’re wrong.
Typically, majority groups in a society are, if anything, too powerful, leaving minority groups marginalized. The driver taking the video had pissed off another driver, who opened his window and cursed out the driver. In the 1976 presidential election, 27% of Americans lived in landslide counties, with the remaining 73% living in more politically balanced counties where the election margin was closer.By 1992, the percentage of Americans living in a landslide county had moved from 27% to 39%. To cater to their audience, they’ll probably start leaning a bit more left themselves—which causes more moderate conservatives to defect to the right-leaning brands.

The internet especially is evolving and changing literally by the month. It turns out the world of evolutionary science is at war with itself over the individual vs. group selection thing. If the two U.S. political parties are like a married couple desperately in need of couples therapy, election season is when they’re at their worst and most contemptuous. (Though for reasons we’ll discuss later, the modern trend may be uniquely dangerous. A minute later, with your Primitive Mind now all riled up, you snap at your boyfriend in a text conversation, only to apologize a few hours later, when the tug-of-war in your head has come back up to its default position.If there were Fitbits that could track Psych Spectrum levels, we’d each see that we have our own graph.I recently engaged in a fun, joint Psych Spectrum roller coaster with a stranger on an airplane. I could not find any correlation in the other 8 cases. Notice how easily people who are normally compassionate drop that compassion when thinking and talking about members of a political party they hate—the “Them” political party? In a sense, it is what extremely internally infectious viruses do – in killing their host.

Its purpose is to combine three of the Primitive Mind’s favorite things: viewpoint/identity confirmation, outgroup bashing, and gossip. Often those boundaries are very complex and very context sensitive.Simple laws may have been reasonable heuristic approximations to those boundaries in our past, but cannot possibly work in the complexity that is our future.So we need something much deeper than laws to constrain the worst excesses of simplistic power. It’s also our impulse to naively believe that our favorite new politician will be able to fix all those problems, if only they could win the presidency. Less hard when you rarely see your enemies in person. If you're not reading this, you should be!

And those bubbles have increasingly become hate-mongering machines. The homeless man (Bobbitt) really was homeless, but the whole story had been made up by the three of them as a get-rich-quick scheme.

But in recent decades, overlap groups like the conservative “Blue Dog Democrats” and the more progressive “Rockefeller Republicans” have gone extinct.


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