Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.