I had this same thought recently regarding friendship and connection as “divide and conquer” for understanding the world.
WRT why people cling to collective worldviews despite contrary evidence… one answer lies in interesting work in Social Psych called “Terror Management Theory.”
Basically, people seek to avoid death, but we all know that we will die. To avoid being paralyzed by this fear, we are socialized by our parents & society into worldviews that grant us “immortality” of sorts: religion, prestige, being “good” to be remembered by loved ones, survival our “our people”, hedonism of the “now” to block out the future, etc.
I had this same thought recently regarding friendship and connection as “divide and conquer” for understanding the world.
WRT why people cling to collective worldviews despite contrary evidence… one answer lies in interesting work in Social Psych called “Terror Management Theory.”
Basically, people seek to avoid death, but we all know that we will die. To avoid being paralyzed by this fear, we are socialized by our parents & society into worldviews that grant us “immortality” of sorts: religion, prestige, being “good” to be remembered by loved ones, survival our “our people”, hedonism of the “now” to block out the future, etc.