The Ideology of Western Suicide?

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." —Arnold Toynbee

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: The social organism
2:24 The evolution of religion
4:55 The parasite-stress theory of values
8:10 Master vs slave morality (lions vs foxes)
11:13 Conclusion: Pathological altruism

References:
- David Sloan Wilson: Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd: Culture and the evolution of human cooperation
- Randy Thornhill and Corey L. Fincher: The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality
- Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality
- Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Image: The Course of Empire: Destruction by Thomas Cole