Evolution is the culprit for the most part when it comes to why we are pulled toward ideological and tribalistic ways of thinking.

But evolution clearly has not just stopped there for us. We have immense complexity, depth, brain capacity, and an incomprehensible ability to imagine things at any moment. This includes new ways of thinking, and that is both the problem and the point I am making in the first place.

Ideology takes that away from you because it gives you a prepackaged belief system. To the degree that you place your trust in this supposed truth, you are simultaneously forfeiting your ability to change or to hold an alternative perspective.