I'm not sure it goes back to the formation of our DNA. Or at least not in that way.
We're raised on stories of Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks and we idealize how important they were to society. Now as people leave childhood and begin facing their own complete lack of importance think they can join the social justice fight and simply by bullying people really be somebody. They'll spend hours a day in a rage at their keyboards while thinking what they're doing is really benefiting society.
Getting outraged politically is a quick and easy path to a social identity and group membership. That does make us sound a bit like apes....
We're raised on stories of Abraham Lincoln and Rosa Parks and we idealize how important they were to society. Now as people leave childhood and begin facing their own complete lack of importance think they can join the social justice fight and simply by bullying people really be somebody. They'll spend hours a day in a rage at their keyboards while thinking what they're doing is really benefiting society.
Getting outraged politically is a quick and easy path to a social identity and group membership. That does make us sound a bit like apes....