We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Bob Butler 54]

Still going through the book, trying to sort things into my perspective. Thing is, here we are used to dividing things by red and blue, by the difference between the cavalier and roundhead cultures, both of which contributed to America, one of the WEIRDest places on the globe.

And the opposite of WEIRD seems to be tribal. You are part of a group. Things are centered on obligations and relationships to the tribe. So the WEIRD people are individualistic readers who adhere to principles, while the tribal are more rural, group oriented folks who are slow to accept outsider as part of the tribe.

OK. While I am with America being much more WEIRD that most nations, is the red blue, cavalier roundhead, rural urban divide we have been discussing between the urban WEIRD people and the more tribal group thinking cavaliers? Did the cavalier roundhead conflict began between a high church rural less reading more listen to the hierarchy bunch, against a more urban, reading, industrializing, changing government faction? Do we connect racial tensions with rural groups that are still more tribal and ready to reject those outside the tribe? If America is WEIRD and getting more so, is it the roundheads - abolitionists - blues that are dragging the cavaliers - slavers - reds along kicking and screaming?

If so, it would be ironic. Americans are as WEIRD as anybody, the blues dragging the reds along though they are resisting. If Americans are WEIRD, Classic will have to lay off calling the rural faction America. America is WEIRD, and becoming more so with every 4T.