Los peligros de la moralidad

A new epidemic has reached our societies: hypermoralization. It has brought with it public lynchings, ideological tribalism and attacks on freedom of expression. And all this in an enormous climate of political polarization, in a "them versus us", where an unstoppable spiral of virtue demands ever greater levels of correction from us, and which has manifested itself in the culture of cancellation, society. of victimhood, continuous outrage in social networks and posture. As the psychiatrist expert in evolutionary biology Pablo Malo describes in this book, technology and its various tools, such as social networks, have become a machine at the service of moral outrage. Social media takes advantage of our moral instincts just as Internet pornography takes advantage of our sexual instincts and, if that weren't enough, other technological and lifestyle changes have caused traditional religion to lose ground as a moral pacemaker.