Our Intolerant Society

How crushing reasoned dissent is now easier than ever

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Our species evolved over hundreds of thousands of years under conditions of scarcity. As marginal hunter-gatherers who should more accurately have been called scavenger-gatherers, we eked out a precarious existence as obligate omnivores scrabbling for whatever calories we could find. Most humans died in their mid-twenties, falling to…