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Tribal Epistemology
The inbuilt desire for categorization has some relationship with tribalism. Group norms, group moorays, group, the idea of stories and anecdotes which swirl around a group to keep groups together over the centuries become fused in truth. And as a result of that, these kinds of things, the brain has evolved a propensity to distrust information coming from other groups because obviously you've got something in common with those people in your group.