Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 2)

See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3.

REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES

In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not actually primarily about hygiene and keeping parasites/pests down after all: the act of grooming, they suggest, plays an important social r...