
Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult
Volts
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Neurological Differences in the Brain
The assumption that those things are more fundamental or unchangeable is part of the problem here. Our brains are changing in response to all kinds of things that we're doing. If we start driving a taxi cab, certain parts of our brain where the geolocations are stored is going to be massively changed as a function of driving a taxi for a couple of years. You know, I think it's very, very plausible that the direction of causality runs the other way as well. Once we become inundated with a particular ideological worldview, once we start, you know, listening to NPR or watching Fox News, it will have effects on our brains over time after years.
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