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Third untruth: life as good vs evil people

The third and most pernicious great untruth is that life is a battle between good people and evil people; this taps the basic social-psychological ease (Tajfel minimal-group experiments) of forming in-groups that dislike out-groups, and the postmodern/power lens that sorts everyone into oppressor or oppressed turns up tribalism in young people who already evolved for tribal warfare.

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Speaker

Jonathan Haidt

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life is a battle between good people and evil people

Source

137 - Safe SpaceMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:37:34 AM

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