Thread by @kamilkazani

Scientific rationality is overrated, evolutionary rationality is underrated. If such behaviour is common, it suggests it is evolutionary stable = rational

Tribe needs mythology to unite it. And mythology must be dumbed down for the entire tribe to get it, otherwise it won't work

It is absolutely rational to believe in some dumbed down crap. Reality is incomprehensible in all of its complexity anyway. And when you start adding 1st nuance, 2nd nuance, 3rd nuance, it can't unite the tribe anymore. Working tribal mythologies are very dumb. Hence, rational

That's a common mechanism of social changes. When a party is small, its myth is nuanced, complicated. But once it expands, it *must* dumb it down to unite everyone. As a result, the old core (inner party) has a nuanced myth and the newcomers (outer party) have dumbed down version

At some point the outer party which believes in dumbed down crap will see the inner party with all their nuances as heretics and traitors. And someone from the inner party gonna weaponise this natural resentment of the outer party against his old comrades from the inner party

Inner vs Outer party dichotomy is a major factor behind the power usurpation. Democratic assabiyah almost inevitably evolves into a monarchy with a Divine Ruler, sole source of legitimacy. That's usually an Inner Party member who unleashed the Outer Party's against his comrades