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#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Human Intervention in Cultural Evolution

i wouldn't quite say that culture wants people to behave in a certain way, evolution proceeds with no necessary direction. Now, cultural evolution sometimes does have direction. So for example, i spoke to ah somebody who was active in the gaywrights campaigns around two thousand eight and two thousand 12. They were able to use, they were able to basically a appeal to other moral foundations and and make really morally and emotionally elevating pitches. I think that human intervention does happen in cultural evolution.

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