Appropriate for a species that is both predator and prey, System One lives in a world of snapjudgments, extensible metaphors, ill-informed biases, and loosely constructed rules of thumb.
That is hasty: Britain is still a place where snapjudgments are made about shoes, accents and haircuts and where the ripe vowels and superior biographies that distinguish many senior Tories might, with more tact, be turned against them.