Francis Foster
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you go, yeah, but deep down, we're just primates.
We're glorified chimpanzees.
All right, we can express ourselves a little bit more articulately.
And we're not going to start flinging excrement at each other.
But we're not that far away, are we?
Sorry, I've come from South London.
I see.
And it appears that we kind of need this balance, don't we, when we're talking about the human being and our societies.
On the one hand, we need to be pragmatic and accept that we're tribal and we still have these instincts and impulses to go to war, for example, for resources.
We're still hierarchical in nature.
But we still need perhaps that progressive element, which is, look,
We're not as violent as we used to be.
We're maybe not as tribal as we used to be.
So we can work on the human being whilst also accepting that there's going to be some fundamental aspects of our biology that can never be changed.
And we talk about genetics, the origin of politics.
There's been a discussion that's been happening online, which I'd love to get your opinion on, which is ever since women have got the vote, we tend to vote for, as a nation or as a society, for more left-leaning politicians, more left-leaning parties.
Is that something that you would agree with broadly, or do you think it's far more complex than Reddit would like to appear?
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