Nonfiction and Nonsense

Chapter 17 (War and Peace) is kind of like a giant review of everything that was discussed in the previous 16 chapters. Sapolsky goes over how if, historically, you consider how terrible some of our behaviors of have been, we have evolved into relatively decent beings, as a whole. Consider acts we once considered normal,…

Chapter 15 (Metaphors We Kill By) was a relatively easy chapter for me to both read and understand. I learned that although we encounter metaphors daily, they are relatively new to us as a species evolutionarily speaking. Because of this, we do have trouble some identifying metaphors. I learned that there is an association between…

Chapter 13 (Morality and Doing the Right Thing, Once You’ve Figured Out What That Is) looks at what morality is for humans. Morals vary depending on culture, something that is taboo in one culture is a part of everyday life in another, but there are a few morals that are found world over. I took…

Chapter 11 (Us Versus Them) discussed Us (in-group) and Them (out-group). We show preference for persons that we view as an Us, this could be someone who is the same age as us, has the same color hair, is a fan of the same team, someone who went to the same college, and endless other…