Baruch Pletner wrote an interesting article a short while back that pondered on the intersect of genetics and social interaction. I normally don’t read anything, or for that matter give any credence to, someone that feels it is important to follow his name with PhD and then MBA. In this case I looked past he egotism.
It begins: We, members of the species Homo Sapiens, the thinking man, love freedom, right? Wrong. The freedom loving gene is so dangerous that had it been prevalent in the Homo Sapiens population, we would have long since gone extinct. Contrary to the self-aggrandizing lies we like to tell ourselves, it is the slavery gene, the gene that makes it possible for us to survive and even thrive in conditions of bondage that is by far the most prominent feature of our species.
The full article can be found at tsarism