why doesn't this stuff improve insight in humans?


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Meditate on that graph. Think of all the partisan bullshit that went into insuring that it could be put before us now. Think of how you discount automatically old worn truisms, like divide and conquer, because they are old and you skip over their veracity almost before they've passed out anyone's lips, including your own. Think how much brain elision is mandatory to your sense of right-thinking adulthood.


pipe up any time....