I came across this video today and found it to be fascinating. For a TLDW, skip to 41:00.
His theory is very fascinating because it can explain the following:
1. Why people join cults. Its an evolutionary response to follow a Shaman, who can unite many different people.
2. Why people are so messed up today. Not just because of a deterioration of inter-sexual relations & family but also because our lives are so damn logical. Intelligent beings cannot thrive in a world of logic - they need supernatural entities to look up to, even if they're someone else's delusions. That may explain why religious people are the most well-adjusted.
We cannot survive with just a sense of logic. It makes us all existential nihilists, something which does not ensure continuation of the species.
3. Why we see so many empirically intelligent people who cannot adjust into the world. We're warriors, shamans and hunters above all else. Industrialization trivializes millions of years of evolution.
4. Why many leaders are not alpha-males in the silverback-gorilla sense. Intelligence is an adaptation to disease and natural disasters. Therefore, it an evolutionary advantage for women to sleep with the most intelligent and well-adjusted men. Also filed under why women like money.
5. Why intelligent & creative people have the most mental issues. Because all the shamans united tribes and created a sense of security and preparedness. You had chieftains and such who looked up to them. This resulted in them becoming the most desirable, since women knew that tribes with shamans were the best for their kids' survival. So they slept with the shamans and had intelligent kids. These genes of intelligence survive today and those with them are more likely to be like their shamanic ancestors. Unfortunately, shamanic intelligence is known as insanity today and many of them are institutionalized. Its why the best musicians have mystic lyrics and a lot of mental issues.
His theory, if paired with the theories presented in Sperm Wars, King Warrior Magician Lover, & the MBTI, makes a lot of illogical situations make perfect sense.
His theory is very fascinating because it can explain the following:
1. Why people join cults. Its an evolutionary response to follow a Shaman, who can unite many different people.
2. Why people are so messed up today. Not just because of a deterioration of inter-sexual relations & family but also because our lives are so damn logical. Intelligent beings cannot thrive in a world of logic - they need supernatural entities to look up to, even if they're someone else's delusions. That may explain why religious people are the most well-adjusted.
We cannot survive with just a sense of logic. It makes us all existential nihilists, something which does not ensure continuation of the species.
3. Why we see so many empirically intelligent people who cannot adjust into the world. We're warriors, shamans and hunters above all else. Industrialization trivializes millions of years of evolution.
4. Why many leaders are not alpha-males in the silverback-gorilla sense. Intelligence is an adaptation to disease and natural disasters. Therefore, it an evolutionary advantage for women to sleep with the most intelligent and well-adjusted men. Also filed under why women like money.
5. Why intelligent & creative people have the most mental issues. Because all the shamans united tribes and created a sense of security and preparedness. You had chieftains and such who looked up to them. This resulted in them becoming the most desirable, since women knew that tribes with shamans were the best for their kids' survival. So they slept with the shamans and had intelligent kids. These genes of intelligence survive today and those with them are more likely to be like their shamanic ancestors. Unfortunately, shamanic intelligence is known as insanity today and many of them are institutionalized. Its why the best musicians have mystic lyrics and a lot of mental issues.
His theory, if paired with the theories presented in Sperm Wars, King Warrior Magician Lover, & the MBTI, makes a lot of illogical situations make perfect sense.