Another is a more directed return to ancient human nature in the form of increased laziness, selfishness, and myopia, or in the form of switching from farmer to forager attitudes and styles, which predicts more leisure, art, travel, democracy, promiscuity, and less fertility and religion. It induces us to make and push more behavior recommendations, and to try harder to govern everything … more expect to be prophets, priests, monks, martyrs, and activists, but less to be the prototypical attendee of religious services, the meek supplicant to whom religion offers comfort and meaning in their hard life. So in addition to moving to democracy, so that we can all get more involved in wider governance decisions, we all also get more involved in defining and enforcing our many specific moral norms.
Author: Robin Hanson
Published at: 2025-07-19 20:13:08
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