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but i must say that for all it’s flaws, it beats freud and the tabula rasa crowd. i find psyche to be the squishiest of the sciences anyway.
the article is a lot deeper dive than i ever took into it. i read ‘the moral animal’ in the clinton years, and a couple other books in that era. so this is a lot more complex than i ever got.

i took away 2 big things-
monkeys invented politics to see who got the girls.
and being a good person is a risky strategy.

the forces at play in growing a human to be altruistic, good, i understand from other sources. i have a fascination w brains. shortly after my 1st kid, the chgo trib did a huge series on new research into fetal development. the big point was about how stressed mothers, specifically the stresses of poverty and big city life, led to shifts in fetal development that pointed to the roots of ‘criminal behavior’. esp the starvation of more complex brain development that is the basis for intelligences. but any kind of stress would apply. stress of a family in crisis is the same no matter how much money you have. money is a cushion but it isnt a shield.
a big chunk of that book is about just that process, in a larger social scope. that’s the part that made an impression on me.

but i dont think you can argue that fear of being a cuck isnt a hardwired part of the male brain. i do take issue w this article on jealousy. saying that gay men see infidelity more like women do, therefore it’s not sex determined but only social, strikes me as quite specious. since we arent talking procreational sex… exception that proves the rule? (no, not a real thing, just saying, you could see it that way.)
other than that, what i know about the subject isnt these deep dives into this behavior or in thst order or any of that. but that’s science for you.


btw- there is a way to change this. not for this gen, maybe but for the next.
the central lesson of all i know is that if all mothers were free of stress, well cared for, fed, not exposed to violence, their babies will be the best they can be.
they wont be hard wired for a hair trigger. for competition. they’ll be hard wired for balance. for cooperation.