Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.