Our brain has various tricks that nudge us into accepting our game’s story of the world and believing what it’s supposed to: it tells us the members of our group are more intelligent than others; it finds it harder to reason logically over arguments that contradict our group’s beliefs; it processes opinions we already agree with as if they’re facts; it often automatically assumes those who hold different beliefs are stupider, more biased, less moral and less trustworthy than we are, making it all too easy to dismiss them.
