Admit One

[Froge]

I've thought about the fact that it would return to "normal" again and it would be pretty hard to not keep it from doing so, but we're talking about a wish, it's not like it's ever gonna happen anyway. There's never going to be a perfect world or a world without hate. Humans fucked the world up.

That's an unnecessarily nihilistic way of looking at things. Hate, prejudice, and inter-group conflict have all been built within us through millions of years of evolution. This is because we've primarily survived by belonging in groups with hierarchical structures. Psychologists note that each individual unconsciously preserves a collective identity based on their group membership, and prejudice follows almost immediately if there is disagreement against this group. I could, for example, belong to the group of people "who very much enjoy Chopin's music." This immediately establishes bias within me against everyone who "does not like Chopin's music as much as me." It's human nature to create these dichotomies, as back in our evolutionary past we survived and passed our genes on by maintaining unquestioning obedience to the collective mindset.

So no, we didn't fuck things up. Nature made us this way.


There is a book you should read named "Oryx and Crake." In this book, scientists identify every gene responsible for human prejudice and conflict (e.g. racism, sexism) and attempt to engineer a superhuman race that exists entirely without these genes, but with disastrous consequences.