States co-opt evolved kin and in-group tendencies to manufacture devoted actors.

Evidence

From a historical vantage, evolutionary-based tendencies of kin selection and parochial altruism are often co-opted in state-level societies and transstate movements with dominant religions—and (ever since the French Revolution) also with salvational transcendental secular ideologies—in the creation of devoted actors. — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor, 27

Categorization

• QUESTION: This co-optation framing implies the manufactured enemy/ideology can substitute manufactured structure for primordial identity — directly relevant to whether solidarity decays or is re-manufactured when threats vanish.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426; Regional order requires perceived cultural kinship with the dominant state.; Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 266 (+5 more)

Related

• Movements succeed by exploiting kin-selection psychology through bonding rituals. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. #exemplifies (0.85) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426
• Humans may extend kin-based sharing rules to strangers by treating them as context-dependent relatives. #expands (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 285
• Regional order requires perceived cultural kinship with the dominant state. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Shared culture legitimates a dominant state’s leadership over its region #exemplifies (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 423
• Politicized identity converts a group from thing-in-itself to actor-for-itself #expands (0.75)
• Group-level selection favors tribes whose members sacrifice for the common good #expands (0.75) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 453
• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. #expands (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 266
• Kin selection arises from helping related individuals reproduce #expands (0.72)