We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-24-2020, 02:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Aren't the Weird a tribe? You talk like they are "I suspect it is much the same for us Weird folks" but you don't seem to view them (yourself) as tribal for some Weird reason ( like you don't understand what your doing or saying as you're doing it) which makes you Weird compared to a Normal member of a Normal tribe.

The WEIRD patten includes changing the brain.  The two halves communicate with one another better.  One becomes measurably better at recognizing the abstract, worse at recognizing people and relationships.  You can tell the difference with an electrocardiogram, not just in which flag turns you on.  You don't see a similar difference if you are tribal but clearly belong to a different tribe.  You should become familiar with the sort of psychological test used to distinguish between the two patterns.

I could see there being a similar difference, say, between hunter gatherers and farmers.  The difference could conceivably stress or exercise different portions of the brain, cause a different wiring.  Just a wild guess.

But, yes, there would be a cat and dog difference.

There would have been WIERD people in antiquity.  There were scribes back in the old days, learning the brain altering skills.  They just would be vastly in the minority, a smaller part of the population.  In many cultures, the difference might be in the priests and some bureaucrats being WIERD but most people tribal.  A distinction between nobles striving for a group's power advantage against the church's fighting for the ideal of peace could echo the modern tension.   The Protestant's thinking that everybody should read the Bible, that the common man should not trust the elites to interpret one's relationship with God, was a big key.

You should really read the book, learn of what you speak.