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Originally Posted by Empire Man
the older I get the more I'm convinced that a lot of variations found within populations that can be so frustrating to all of us (differences in empathy, tolerance, aggressiveness, liberal/conservative stuff, predilection towards faith, etc) are here to stay. That as frustrating as they can be to each of us as individuals, that somehow our entire group is benefiting from all the irreconcilability, which seems ancient and ubiquitous almost to the point where I have to wonder if the balance has somehow evolved into us on a group level.
Yeah, I just don't see it. True freedom of information on a widespread level has only happened over the last decade or so, and it still hasn't reached the vast majority of the world. We as humans are still coming out of the dark ages where we passed down beliefs/traditions from generation to generation uninterrupted, with blind respect and faith in leaders.
Now, there is information, those who don't blindly trust can readily find like-minded individuals, and our culture in the US (and the rest of the world will follow) is inexorably changing. It will take time - decades for sure, if not centuries, but thousands of years of ignorance are being blown away and eradicated in the span of a few years. The rate of change is accelerating too.
I am insanely optimistic about the future of humans and really jealous I won't be around in a few hundred years.