For more reading about this, here is Scott Alexander's review of a book about cultural revolution: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/
Why are people so bad at reasoning? For the same reason they’re so bad at letting poisonous spiders walk all over their face without freaking out. Both “skills” are really bad ideas, most of the people who tried them died in the process, so evolution removed those genes from the population, and successful cultures stigmatized them enough to give people an internalized fear of even trying.
For more reading about this, here is Scott Alexander's review of a book about cultural revolution: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/
Thank you for this link! Super interesting.