The purpose of a society is to enable a larger group of people to be able to strive together than what would normally be possible. Dunbar's Number is a theory that suggests that our minds can only maintain a limited number of significant social contacts. We require a sense of community to grow.
This happens when profoundly broken people - psychopathic, narcissistic power-hoarders - run things. They make society worse than what even the average of humanity could be, because they compulsively live a lie to manipulate others.
We need to reshape politics with neuro-psychological savvy.
Ah, but the horror is that if life is a Zero-Sum Game, then Empires make strategic sense. Modernists believe we have progressed beyond that point, but the reality appears to be that we haven't, with competition over resources leading to violence. Grim, but that's what we see.
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We need to reshape politics with neuro-psychological savvy.