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No, 'moralisation' comes from the emotions of our biology. Disgust, tribalism, groupthink, mob mentality - all the horrors are in our biology, right here, right
by 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.)