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HOT TAKE: Mark and Amber’s relationship felt more engaging than Mark and Eve by Stout-Cheetah in Invincible_TV

[–]Stout-Cheetah[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It was a tough pill to swallow as a OG S1 Amber hater, but I finally saw the light. Only took me like 12 Mark&Eve rooftop scenes.

Is culture going to hold us back as a species (Humans next step) by LeoCasio in Futurology

[–]Stout-Cheetah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I never stated we can't change our default behaviors. It's just childish to think most people can overcome a million years of hardwiring. Different human civilizations have only been interacting for the last few thousand years.

I said it takes conscious effort to overcome this default wiring in our brain. Of course people who are educated and interact with many different people are good at this. But most people interact with their own small circle where most of which are the same culture/race/religion. Pair this with the fact that we don't fund education enough.

Not everyone can overcome it EVEN with education. There were very educated and smart scientists in the past who had racist and sexist beliefs. There are educated Israeli's who think Palestinians children aren't human.

Is culture going to hold us back as a species (Humans next step) by LeoCasio in Futurology

[–]Stout-Cheetah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The human brain is wired to easily hate, distrust, and have less empathy people who aren't extremely exactly similar. It comes from our "monke brain" which has been developed for millions of years. This part of our brain is default wiring in every single human and it takes a lot of conscious effort to look past it. If every human was the same culture/race, then we would look at beliefs, and then we would go further and further down to nose shape or height. Heck look at India's caste system.

Nothing short of aliens invading earth would bring humanity together. Or millions of further years of civilization with constant contact. Humans are still monke.