Originally posted on 06/05/2020:

Each and every one of you that has chosen a “side” has been duped by two things:

1. Corporate news entities driven primarily by reinforcing THEIR interests, 95% of which are purely financial interests and 5% ideological interests.

2. Yourself. We have evolved so many mental heuristics that were advantageous when we were tribes of monkeys fighting over the ownership of a banana tree or rotting antelope carcass. In our society today, which involves too many moving parts for us to reliably keep track of, especially when our means of communication and access to information incentivizes deception from bad actors, these heuristics and biases act as more of a hindrance in the long term.

We are perhaps living in an era where for the first time it is in your own best interest to allow others to “win” in life. It used to be an evolutionary adaptive trait to not only ensure that you “win”, but also that the other tribe “loses”. Now, it is actually beneficial to ensure your tribe “wins” and the other tribe “wins” too. Unfortunately, because of the 2 reasons above, we cannot realize that this is the case.