Cracked: 5 Human Flaws That Prevent Progress and Keep Us Dumb

Flaws? Naw...these aren't even flaws...they are symptoms and consequences. Flaws are actually pretty cool things that contribute a lot toward making us human.

False empowerment might be what leads to just about every one of these top 5 plus others listed here. The kind of false empowerment that religions, governments, and corporations comprised of psychotic sociopaths use to control (or try to control) others.

a reply to: HarbingerOfShadows

Perhaps its the "Don't Care About Reality Club" - we'd be sitting ducks!

a reply to: HarbingerOfShadows

Only five?

I got a better and far more important one. Being human is what prevent humans from progress and ultimately, from survival. Read between the lines, its more consequent than one thinks.

a reply to: _damon

I will go one farther.
Being human and refusing to take that basic fact into account is what is holding us back.
Not the fact of being human it's self.

Short form?
We take ourselves too damn seriously.