User blog comment:Yuy168/Why Post-Scarcity Doesn't Work/@comment-76.190.203.221-20140201045731/@comment-4364108-20140202220933

People are programmed to think a certain way. Just like how birds fly south in the winter. Obviously this is malleable to a degree, and the malleability might vary to a certain degree among species, but even people who are born and raised in an environment where it's ok to have your parents killed for stealing loaves of bread will start having mental breakdowns when they are introduced to the Idea that it could be wrong. Read about people who have lived in North Korean labor camps or were in the Hitler Youth. It's even worse once people realize they are being manipulated in which case they will be very angry. I buy into convergent evolution when it comes to psychology to a certain degree so a very unique environment might allow for a totally malleable psychology. Being born with the Neural Programming to think in a certain way has massive evolutionary advantadges, so it will naturally overcome the ones not programmed to think in a certain way. Im not a neurologist, but I doubt a totally malleable psyche is even possible, it would be like writing a computer program without a programming language.