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I think the moralization is due to the religious root of the American culture. Religion is all about morality, and the American people, especially those on the

I think the moralization is due to the religious root of the American culture. Religion is all about morality, and the American people, especially those on the right side, invoke God too easily. Those on the left side, still think it's God that grant the America the privilege to herd all the people of the whole world, to teach the world what's right and wrong. If people in another country may be wrong and have to be taught what's right, well, how can people in another state avoid such error? How can people next door be always right, such as I am?

mindfulhack 6y ago
No, 'moralisation' comes from the emotions of our biology. Disgust, tribalism, groupthink, mob mentality - all the horrors are in our biology, right here, right now, inside everyone, in 2020. 'Godless' non-religious people on the left are extremely 'moral' and burn people at the stake via deplatforming and cancelling. Science and scientific culture of the last 50/100 years has helped, but even it's been hijacked by our monolithic emotional reality of tribalism and fear. Zooming out, scientific culture is a momentary lifting of a mountain one inch off the ground. The development of human nature is frozen in time compared to the development of science. Science has caught up to it, and has hit a wall which scientific papers alone cannot move. In fact, the analogy of throwing wads of paper at a wall and expecting it to move. That's the impact it's having. I fear there is not much we can do about human nature until we can physically change ourselves at the DNA level, to rid or regulate emotions like rage and disgust via CRISPR etc. There's pros and cons of being in the 'World State' or in the 'Savage Reservation'. (Brave New World reference.)