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213 - Vaccine Hesitancy

You Are Not So Smart

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Social Dynamics of the Ostracism Pandemic

Evolution via group selection, made us ultra social primates motivated by shame and ostracism to avoid social death more strongly than physical death. That is the drive that leads to the motivation, that motivates this sort of cognition and emotion. So if you try to persuade someone of literally anything, or they begin to feel as though you were part of them and not us, your efforts will fail.

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