There are large social policy implications in the amazingly good consequences

that ordinarily come from people likely to trigger extremes of love and

admiration boosting each other in a feedback mode. For instance, it is obviously

desirable to attract a lot of lovable, admirable people into the teaching

profession.

 

Three: Disliking/Hating Tendency

 

In a pattern obverse to Liking/Loving Tendency, the newly arrived human is also

“born to dislike and hate” as triggered by normal and abnormal triggering forces

in its life. It is the same with most apes and monkeys.

 

As a result, the long history of man contains almost continuous war. For

instance, most American Indian tribes warred incessantly, and some tribes would

occasionally bring captives home to women so that all could join in the fun of

torturing captives to death. Even with the spread of religion, and the advent of

advanced civilization, much modern war remains pretty savage. But we also get

what we observe in present-day Switzerland and the United States, wherein the

clever political arrangements of man “channel” the hatreds and dislikings of

individuals and groups into nonlethal patterns including elections.

 

But the dislikings and hatreds never go away completely. Born into man, these

driving tendencies remain strong. Thus, we get maxims like the one from England:

“Politics is the art of marshalling hatreds.” And we also get the extreme

popularity of very negative political advertising in the United States.