The 10,000 Foot View (5-14-23)

My rules for life: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147702

* Left and Right politics are evolutionary adaptations that have enabled our ancestors to pass on their genes. In some circumstances, a Left-wing approach to reality will be more adaptive. In other circumstances, a right-wing approach will be more adaptive. Book: “[T]he political left has been associated with support for equality and tolerance of departures from tradition, while the right is more supportive of authority, hierarchy, and order.”
* Our political, cultural, and personal tendencies are strongly influenced by our genes.
* Religion, from a secular perspective, is a subset of culture, which comes from genes and environment. African Christianity, for example, is very different from Scandinavian Christianity.
* As long as tens of millions of people such as the Japanese are more decent than the most committed nations of monotheists, I’m not sure how one can argue that God is necessary for ethics (something I’ve believed almost all of my life). Our behavior is shaped by who we love more than by our beliefs, texts, and practices.
* Most people don’t get their meaning in life from politics. Most people get their meaning from family. If they have room in their life after family, they get their meaning from their work, friends, and interests.
* Pundits, to maintain their uniqueness, inevitably trend towards conspiracy theories.
* Nobody has the right to anything unless you are lucky to live in a society that is strong and enforces rights, but they can still all be taken away at any time due to a real or putative emergency.

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