How fear of future outcomes affects social dynamics
Boris Podobnik, Marko Jusup, Zhen Wang, H. Eugene Stanley

TL;DR
This paper models how fear of future outcomes influences social dynamics, showing how tolerance levels among insiders can lead to either stable coexistence or societal collapse when facing external incursion.
Contribution
It introduces a theoretical model analyzing the impact of varying insider tolerance on social stability amid external pressures, highlighting conditions for sustainable coexistence.
Findings
High insider tolerance maintains social stability.
Radicalization can trigger societal collapse.
Critical majority of radicals leads to antagonism.
Abstract
Mutualistic relationships among the different species are ubiquitous in nature. To prevent mutualism from slipping into antagonism, a host often invokes a "carrot and stick" approach towards symbionts with a stabilizing effect on their symbiosis. In open human societies, a mutualistic relationship arises when a native insider population attracts outsiders with benevolent incentives in hope that the additional labor will improve the standard of all. A lingering question, however, is the extent to which insiders are willing to tolerate outsiders before mutualism slips into antagonism. To test the assertion by Karl Popper that unlimited tolerance leads to the demise of tolerance, we model a society under a growing incursion from the outside. Guided by their traditions of maintaining the social fabric and prizing tolerance, the insiders reduce their benevolence toward the growing…
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