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[Faith] Episode 8: Joseph Henrich - Is Christianity Weird?

The Bible For Normal People

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The Importance of Knowing Your Own Context

The Taliban is basically a posh tune organization. The posh tune have a segmentary lineage system with an intense coat of honor and these high rates of cousin marriage. It's just the, it leads to a psychology that's incompatible with democracy. So it's a bad plan to try to transplant democracy. You need if, if that's your goal, you've got to have a much more cultural evolutionary approach. Gender inequality is built into the kinship structure. If you build that into the system, you end up with a large age gap between husbands and wives. And we don't even really know we're doing it.

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