Metaphysical Desire - The Challenges of Humanity

We are officially moving from psychology to history. How can we follow our own authentic desires if every part of our psyche is so helplessly external in its origin? How is the democratic process not as arbitrary as the whims of a single dictator if we are so easily influenced and swayed by the mob these will have to remain question for now, wrestled with over the course of the next seven lectures. The only hominoid groups that survived and formed lasting cultures were ones that stumbled upon a unique cultural technology to stop this escalating conflict. And that he called the scapegoat mechanism.