the article says we are optimized for cooperating in groups and not for reasoning (this supposedly had the function of controlling the free loaders). Of course

the article says we are optimized for cooperating in groups and not for reasoning (this supposedly had the function of controlling the free loaders). Of course this has the political implication that people should be governed by enlightened rulers - Plato didn't trust democracy either. Now i think that people are perfectly competent at deciding if they are better of now rather than they were four years ago; maybe I am fighting against a strawman here, but no, democracy still is the best of all systems out there. The dissident songwriter Alexander Galich has a song about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuXx6gU5wRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuXx6gU5wRc (In Russian) http://songpros.ru/1/Aleksandr-Galich/tekst-pesni-Boytes-togo-kto-skajet-ya-znayu-kak-nado http://songpros.ru/1/Aleksandr-Galich/tekst-pesni-Boytes-tog... "don't fear neither praise nor blame / don't fear hunger nor thirst / only fear but the one who says 'I know how it ought to be' / the one who says 'follow me i will teach how it has to be done' " (my attempt at translation)