10-11-2020, 12:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-11-2020, 12:22 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
It seems to play out the usual themes. One small tribal group tries to maintain control over another using superior force. The larger group they are allied with tries to maintain the peace. Is this what crisis wars have come to? If you hate another group enough, it seems a big deal to you? Eventually that hate becomes stronger than your memory of what happened last time? If you are a larger elite you have other economic fish to fry mixed with a fear of nukes, and you would rather not bother with the squabbling?
Respecting minorities is the idea on the principled side, but there are enough people clinging to the old tribal prejudices that you can hardly call this principle universal. The more rural the area, the more likely the tribal mode of thinking is to get out of hand.
For the US it is a hatred of minorities, and attempt to keep your tribal ‘superiority’ up. For others, the government is still officially making war on the other ethnic group. The pattern of tribe and hostility is left over from the Agricultural Age when it used to be cost effective. We are still not rid of it yet.
Respecting minorities is the idea on the principled side, but there are enough people clinging to the old tribal prejudices that you can hardly call this principle universal. The more rural the area, the more likely the tribal mode of thinking is to get out of hand.
For the US it is a hatred of minorities, and attempt to keep your tribal ‘superiority’ up. For others, the government is still officially making war on the other ethnic group. The pattern of tribe and hostility is left over from the Agricultural Age when it used to be cost effective. We are still not rid of it yet.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
