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What reason do you have to believe we're more inclined to weirdness?
It was a commonality between rationality as a project and religiosity. I was intending a very weak form of "could explain".
What I actually believe is that Americans have a default of "doing something". Thinking about whether the something makes sense is permitted but optional.
The fact that Americans are almost entirely descended from people who decided to uproot themselves and move to a foreign country where they don't have the same institutions, culture, or friends.
This is pretty not normal.
This assumes a large genetic aspect of being "weird".
Not necessarily, this was recent enough that it could be cultural.
Not unreasonable. Eg personality traits like openness have a decent heritability and are closely related to weirdness.