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Our unique evolutionary background has made us wonderfully cooperative, empathic, and loving. So why is our history so full of selfishness, cruelty, and violence? Economic and cultural factors certainly play a role. Nonetheless, across different kinds of societies—hunter-gatherer, agrarian, and industrial; communist and capitalist; Eastern and Western—in most cases the story is basically the same: loyalty and protection toward us, and fear and aggression toward them. We’ve already seen how that stance toward us is deep in our nature.
― Rick Hanson,
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

Our unique evolutionary background has made us wonderfully cooperative, empathic, and...

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