The Self Love in Group Hate
14th June 2024
Human beings will always form membership groups, and always show an inbuilt bias in favour of other people who share that group.
Given this instinct, much of modern political life becomes confusingly unnatural, which might explain a great deal of the alienation many of us feel from the political process itself.
So, if we are predisposed to form groups and prioritise those groups, isn’t it odd that we have so many people today who have been conditioned, who can be conditioned, to detest a group to which they themselves belong?