"The Meaning of Human Existence" by Edward O. Wilson (2014) (http://bit.ly/3bZGkZm)

"Selfish activity within the group provides competitive advantage but is commonly destructive to the group as a whole. Working in the opposite direction from individual level selection is group selection — group versus group. When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases the survival and reproduction rate of the group as a whole. In a nutshell, individual selection favors what we call sin and group selection favors virtue. The result is the internal conflict of conscience that afflicts all but psychopaths..." (p. 179).

References:

Edward O. Wilson (https://eowilsonfoundation.org/e-o-wilson/)

Vox Conversations: Neoliberalism and its discontents (http://apple.co/3cOKnqI)

Ezra Klein (https://twitter.com/ezraklein)

Wendy Brown (https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/wendy-brown)

Noah Smith (https://twitter.com/Noahpinion)

"Why humans run the world" TED Talk by Yuval Noah Harari (https://bit.ly/3qWx0tn)

Yuval Noah Harari (https://twitter.com/harari_yuval)

Michael Lipset, PhD of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)

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