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Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3

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The Anti-Rational Memes of Our Culture

Anti-rational memes are still today a substantial part of our culture. The degree to which a person's life was controlled by duty obedience authority piety faith and so on was the very measure by which people judge themselves and others children who asked why they were required to enact onerous behaviors that did not seem functional would be told because i say so. This is a curious type of meme whose explicit content is true though its holders do not believe it. We all feel this and you will know it when you feel any kind of uneasiness or embarrassment at transgressing any kind of social cultural practice, David says.

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