As the title states, we are so WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic).  And, we don’t just believe it to be normal but also “best” for humanity to be such (i.e., others should be like us).  This belief system blinds us to our biases and prevents us from any substantive change.  In fact, we hold values that prevent people from coming together, from sharing, and from solving problems we collectively face.  And until we are willing to critically examine how the society we have been raised within shapes what we believe and hold dear, there is little hope of stepping off this path we were set upon millennia ago.