“A funny thing happens,” Haidt said, “when you take young human
beings, whose minds evolved for tribal warfare and us/them thinking, and you
fill those minds full of binary dimensions. You tell them that one side in each
binary is good and the other is bad. You turn on their ancient tribal circuits,
preparing them for battle. Many students find it thrilling; it floods them with
a sense of meaning and purpose.”
The problem is that tribal common-enemy thinking tears a diverse
nation apart.” – David Brooks NY Times
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