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Ep. 2281 The Psychology of Human Action: Why Some People Slavishly Follow the Elites

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Human Nature and Human Behavior

If you make a few assumptions about human nature and human behavior, I think you can draw some conclusions that explain all this. So number one is you got to put hierarchy, social hierarchy in the center of your analysis. People naturally disdain low status people and kind of our worship full of high status people. The propensity to follow the group or to think independently is basically genetic.

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