If well-fed, famine-free people are more likely to root their lives in comfortable abstractions, then expect hunter-gatherer communities to live with comfortable abstractions:DBTrek wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:52 pmI think it's probably harder to form emotional biases if your day is very much rooted in concrete realities than in comfortable abstractions. Well fed, well protected, leisurely people have time to learn about racism, and classism, and sexism, and all the abstract -isms that become the replacement for actual struggles in life.
Everyone naturally struggling in life is dealing with just making it to the next day. So they don't have time to indulge in fantasy oppression, or vague notions of peoples represented by ideas and cultures clashing over time, and who owes what to whom for bygone wrongs.
Nope.
Their mentality is a lot more grounded in the present, the near-term, their direct circle of influence.
So can they have cognitive bias?
Probably, if cognitive bias is just a catch phrase for "mental shortcuts" we all use to get from A to F without stopping at B,C,D,E along the way.
But will they self-isolate in groupthink media bubbles and self radicalize?
I dunno about that.
I doubt it.
That sounds more like something citizens of a modern state would have time to do.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/
But still, I'd agree that they - like most developed countries for that matter - don't bother with Victimhood Culture. That thing's a recent and, afaik, historically unique development. People have always had notions of injustices done to them, but there has never been that much prestige in portraying yourself as victimized on the scale as some people do now.3. RESULTS
We first compared warm-climate hunter–gatherers and cold-climate hunter–gatherers using Mann–Whitney U-tests (table 1). Warm-climate hunter–gatherers had a significantly lower frequency of famine than cold-climate hunter–gatherers in two variables: occurrence of famine and persistence of famine. Also, planning for famine (contingency of famine) was significantly more common in cold-climate hunter–gatherers than warm-climate hunter–gatherers (table 1).
I don't think it's the "struggling" aspect of "primitive" societies that would make them less susceptible to Victimhood Culture. It's simply that they know each other, and so when someone screams that hunter is "*taboo in that culture*", there isn't a nameless horde of people who don't know the person who will slander that person to his face without good cause. Second reason could be somewhat related to what StA posted, in that a precise vocubulary is essential to keep the peace because having a shared language is considered essential to that. So there is less tendency to stretch the definition of *insert their taboo word* to infinity or use accusations of being *taboo word* as a blanket word for "bad/evil person", like "Racist" or "Marxist", is being used by the American left and right, respectively.