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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Importance of Cooperation and Altruism

A given human group can become largely selfish over many generations. Different families just adopt a moral familialism, right? They're with their family against everybody else. A broader society that operates like that will eventually be outcompeted by other societies that have more cooperative attributes.

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