The Evolution of Human Psychology

80 percent of the Israelites who are enslaved never left Egypt because they preferred the known oppression that was predictable to the unknown journey of the desert. Those who did leave spent 40 years in the desert complaining that things were better in Egypt where at least they knew what to expect. I think there's plenty to learn from the story of Egypt and the process of going to Egypt as a tribe and becoming a people and then a nation and then a state, he says.