The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

BATB score: 7.8/10 🧠

*Reader discretion advised* this a theoretical, thoroughly-researched, serious academic book. This book is smarter than all of us combined. I feel the blood, sweat, and tears; the discipline, determination, and passion of Jonathan Haidt in writing this comprehensive piece. #bravo

Best to: 90% chimp 10% bee; fundamentally, we are competitive selfish hypocrites 🙈; yet, we morally can collate for the good of the group 🐝

Best for: debaters, political leaders, behavioural economists to understand the science of intuition, collective cults, and polarised ideologies

Best as: not a light-hearted casual read; my brain was only able to digest 78% of the whole intellectual gist

Best quotes: "morally dumbfounded; meaning rendered speechless by their inability to explain verbally what they knew intuitively."

"We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgement; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgement."

“We judge attractive people to be smarter and more virtuous, and we are more likely to give a pretty face the benefit of any doubt.”