The Printing Press, Working memory and Democracy

Narcissistic traits are much higher than is native to the human condition. As soon as the system gets large enough that you can hide the effects, then you start having an evolutionary niche for those kinds of parasitic and predatory behaviors. It's a complex biopsycho social process that's an interplay between us, our environment, our genes, our hardware or software, and everything else.

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