potentially hazardous object on Nostr: a lot of “irrational” human behaviour makes perfect sense if you consider that ...

a lot of “irrational” human behaviour makes perfect sense if you consider that all our moral instincts have developed, as their default, no-corrective-conscious-reasoning-needed starting point, in terms of

establishing an ingroup to protect
establishing the outgroups that may be threatening the ingroup
attacking those threatening outgroups
of the remaining outgroups, partnering if they show the displays of allyship to your ingroup, or attacking if they show the displays of allyship to a threatening outgroup
doing this in the least mentally taxing way by consolidating all data into the fewest possible groups
rationalizing this in your conscious mind so that your brain and language can generate the displays of your ingroup

this all happens on a totally intuitive level, to the point where it’s impossible to pick apart and question if you’re not consciously looking for it

most people never, ever think to look for it

those who do, still routinely fail, because at the speeds and volumes these things go it’s like trying to stand up by moving every associated muscle voluntarily

the firehose of social media engagement just makes it worse