Book: Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion"

The first book of 2023 was a book from 2012.  Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, explores why humans divide themselves into groups and why these groups are often at odds with each other.

Haidt's "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" is an interesting book.  The divisions between our religions and political parties that he tried to explain in 2012 only became worse - by orders of magnitude in my opinion - since the publication of the book.

Some of what the author talks about is not in my wheelhouse ... namely psychology.  Despite this most of the concepts he discusses are easy to understand.  You can see how the divisions are based on psychology  and evolution.

Understanding why we are so far apart, while interesting, is not very uplifting.  How do we correct millions of years of evolution?  How do you change how our unconscious mind reacts to differences?  it's all kind of depressing if you think about it.

I gave this book four stars out of five on Goodreads.  It was interesting enough.  I just wish the message was more positive.  I just wish I didn't see the same divisions in myself.