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300 thousand years of human existence and we act like we climbed out of the trees yesterday.
To be fair, our brains are basically the same as our 300k y/o ancestor's. We just have some more technology, but that's it.
It's not like we have evolutionary pressure to improve our stupid monkey brains to be more tolerant. If anything it's the other way around.
To be accurate, we spent about 95% of that wandering around in the dirt before it occurred to some of us that we could stay in one place and maybe grow stuff there.
For me, that reality provides necessary context for why we are the way we are. En masse, we are not nearly as intelligent or impressive as we believe we are. IMHO even the best of us only have glimmers of sapience.