09-22-2020, 03:01 PM
More folding in WEIRD and it’s opposite in tribal thinking.
If the red are to be linked into a rural tribal life, the idea of xenophobia as encountered in General Dynamics does make more sense. Tribes do not like each other. In the old way of thinking, this is a feature not a bug. Here in the US we have racism, but elsewhere it is not hard to find all out crisis wars. Tribes and tribal thinking are more common in rural areas. This explains why Generational Dynamics has no problems finding crisis wars in more rural areas, but none among the more urban WEIRD major powers.
It also seem to go with how Generational Dynamics puts xenophobia as more important than economic and idealistic reasons for conflicts. There is a large dose of tribal thinking in Generational Dynamics, and economics and idealism are more WEIRD.
I have been accepting the longish list of crisis wars that Xenakis provided, and trying to reconcile it with the obvious lack of crisis triggers among the major powers. The non cost effectiveness of proxy insurgent warfare and nuclear exchanges are part of it. Now I am seeing another reason. Rural tribal cultures just tend towards xenophobia between tribes. Xenophobia is virtually part of the definition of how tribal thinking works. You reject people from other tribes in favor of the kin group. Crisis wars are just the extreme result of it. The thinking of the major powers is more based on principles and ideals. You wouldn’t expect them to act the same.
I am starting to wonder how much of the strange straw men Xenakis comes up with is ideological blindness, or whether he just cannot comprehend the WEIRD thought pattern? The bad parodies of thought patterns of people with different values are the best he can come up with? It isn’t a lack of intelligence, it is more a limitation in being locked into the tribal perspective?
If the red are to be linked into a rural tribal life, the idea of xenophobia as encountered in General Dynamics does make more sense. Tribes do not like each other. In the old way of thinking, this is a feature not a bug. Here in the US we have racism, but elsewhere it is not hard to find all out crisis wars. Tribes and tribal thinking are more common in rural areas. This explains why Generational Dynamics has no problems finding crisis wars in more rural areas, but none among the more urban WEIRD major powers.
It also seem to go with how Generational Dynamics puts xenophobia as more important than economic and idealistic reasons for conflicts. There is a large dose of tribal thinking in Generational Dynamics, and economics and idealism are more WEIRD.
I have been accepting the longish list of crisis wars that Xenakis provided, and trying to reconcile it with the obvious lack of crisis triggers among the major powers. The non cost effectiveness of proxy insurgent warfare and nuclear exchanges are part of it. Now I am seeing another reason. Rural tribal cultures just tend towards xenophobia between tribes. Xenophobia is virtually part of the definition of how tribal thinking works. You reject people from other tribes in favor of the kin group. Crisis wars are just the extreme result of it. The thinking of the major powers is more based on principles and ideals. You wouldn’t expect them to act the same.
I am starting to wonder how much of the strange straw men Xenakis comes up with is ideological blindness, or whether he just cannot comprehend the WEIRD thought pattern? The bad parodies of thought patterns of people with different values are the best he can come up with? It isn’t a lack of intelligence, it is more a limitation in being locked into the tribal perspective?
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