by Human beings are very friendly and gregarious creatures where our communities are very important to us. Through our collectivism we have achieved so much, but we are also very individualistic and competitive. A football team is very collective but individual footballers would love to be the person who scores the goals.Good self esteem helps us to get on in life and to also helps us find us to a loving partner. Feeling that we are worthwhile and lovable is as important to us as getting food and shelter (once we are out of danger, anyway). If you are really good at something, doesn't it give you a good feeling? We all like to think we are special and unique in some way and of course we all are. We all work hard at being masters of something, even if we are just good at making our friends
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Good self esteem helps us to get on in life and to also helps us find us to a loving partner. Feeling that we are worthwhile and lovable is as important to us as getting food and shelter (once we are out of danger, anyway). If you are really good at something, doesn't it give you a good feeling? We all like to think we are special and unique in some way and of course we all are. We all work hard at being masters of something, even if we are just good at making our friends laugh.
Stefan Molineux is well known for his egotism, but I can't understand why scientist like Sam Harris and Steve Pinker and psychologists, like Jordan Peterson, would fall for vanity when it comes to I.Q. and race. It's seductive to feel superior and extra special in some way, but academics who study human behavior should be fully aware of this phenomena.
Could Jordan Peterson, who lectures people about the 7 deadliest sins, be himself seduced by pride? White pride! Neither he, or the academics above checked the facts, so were they seduced by pride? Or hubris, which I think is a better word.
In the experiment below, a school teacher tells the children that blue eyed children are better and more superior than brown eyed children. The blue eyed children love the feeling of superiority, but the brown eyed children become upset, depressed, and despondent. In the school playground the blue eyed children taunt and bully the brown eyed children reeling their new superiority. The brown eyed children even begin to fail academically.
Could the academics mentioned above have fallen for hubris and vanity putting their scientific vigour aside? It was just so tempting.