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Quote by: Gorgo Certainly there is a need for information, but there is no biological need to change from speculation to dogma. |
Actually, dogma is quicker; so it can conceivably confer a survival advantage. Then again, there is the rare occasion where the knee-jerk response is damaging; hence cycles of contingency, specialization, etc.
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That comes from someone's need to feel superior in some way. Either the priest that convinces others that only he has the answers to someone who thinks their tribe is better than others.
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I think there's the 'joy' of lording it over, and the 'anguish' of being lorded over; and they both stem from arrogance.
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It is about the attempt to gain self-worth or maintain some idea of self-worth that that sort of thing is done.
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Everyone wants to feel of worth, worthy. Some people do it by making others feel worthless; and that's just wrong.