We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-25-2020, 09:25 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I assume you are able to associate what they're doing with tribal thinking but you seem to be unaware that what you're doing and saying which is similar what they're thinking/believing and using as an excuse or justification of what they're doing and attracting the interest of a large portion of the country that still believes in the age old American concept of might makes right and the idea of using American  force to establish order and make things right again for most of the country.

There is a distinction between 'all men are equal under law' and 'might makes right'.  The right to murder minorities must be tempered by a movement towards democracy, human rights, equality and justice.  A large part of the country may think it is OK to use might to maintain control.  A large part does not.

Various book looks at the basic divide from different angles.  You get The Cousin's Wars talking about the roundhead and cavalier cultures settling in different parts of the country, initiating the divide between rural racists and urban democracy that persists to this day.  You get Guns, Germs and Steel identifying some of the forces that put the WIERD culture in control.  You have The WIERDest People in the World looking at the difference in mental structure between the two.

In combination, these books show how a given way of perceiving things is slowly overcoming another.  It shows how one civilization at a time, one fourth turning at a time, we are shifting from an Agricultural Age might makes right tribal perspective to a principled democratic one.

You think this time around the trend will be broken?  This time the might makes right tribal Agricultural Age brutal approach will start making a comeback?  I don't think so.  In the English Civil War, the American Revolution, the American Civil War and World War II, the might makes right brutal faction, thinking themselves so great in conflict and violence to have the advantage, has gone head to head with the WEIRD and lost.

I know you and your 'Americans' think your tribal approach to keeping the oppressed down are impressed by yourselves, but the direction of history is not in your favor.  Might makes right?  Think again which side is mighty.