re: #218 thedopefishlives

I just don’t understand this part of the human psyche. We all feel it to a degree; our success in life is largely based on how effectively we can counter this tendency. What’s confusing me is how people got to be this stubborn. It seems to be an anti-evolutionary trait; continuing to persist in the face of reality sounds like a fast ticket to an early death.

If it tends to ossify that way after the people have reproduced it’s not an anti-evolutionary trait.

And from a social/community level such stubbornness can potentially carry some survival benefit for a village or tribe. (Not quite sure what that would be, but fanaticism can sometimes carry one through a crisis.)