The advantage that the right has over the left is that of l…

The advantage that the right has over the left is that of long-term thinking, which was required in order to be willing to work long hours producing food for the dry season when there was already plenty of food available to eat right now. The agricultural revolution did not happen by choice. It happened because of population pressure that forced people to move on to lands that could not support them as hunter-gatherers. Nobody wants to work by the sweat of their brow when they could live in the garden of Eden. The pastorals who became the upper class, on the other hand, were short-term thinkers. Their superior strength and intelligence was not enough to overcome the gradual accumulation of benefit that accrues to long-term thinkers. They created something that, at long last, they could not control. Now they live in a world too complex for them to grasp that tends to break free of control faster than systems of control can be implemented.