We're WEIRD. Get over it.

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-19-2020, 08:48 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: On Earth 2, the opposite of weird is normal. America is unique which may be weird to Europeans who live in Democratic socialist countries that don't change much on their own. I agree that blues are more weird than the reds. As a matter of fact, we've been telling the blues that for years. We've used terms like warped minds, libtards, loonie or crazy liberals to describe blue weirdness. I don't see the weird dragging the reds like you do in your own weird perspective. I don't know if that makes sense to someone normal but it's the best that I can do without being a weird. I see weird strongholds attracting more weird and getting more weird while losing more and more normal. It fit's my belief that there's a process of natural selection going on within the country right now. A natural process that can only occur in a free country like America. I mean, people tearing down statues associated with their freedom is weird to me. But then again, I'm not weird.

I’d best finish the book, but I have learned enough to see you are confusing weird and WEIRD.  Northwest Europe is as much WEIRD as anyone, and that includes the so called socialist democracy countries.  Asian countries like Russia and China are behind.  WIERD people will be loyal to principle and those with similar temporary specialty skills, while tribal people are loyal to the tribe and all into what will benefit the people most like them.  I can see the industrial skilled urban people taking over from the rural group oriented folks.  The Industrial Revolution as well as protestantism and the S&H recent crisis are all about becoming more WIERD.

And I would disagree that the process is unique to America.  University students are more WEIRD all over the globe.  They are just more into reading and thus getting their brains wired WIERDly.  In many places the urban educated crowd is far more WIERD than the rural folks still dedicated to the tribal mentality.  The well educated crowd are more WIERD than the laborers.

Just as an example, the old Confederate statues are dedicated to the old racial cavalier culture, more accepting of white Protestant culture than the principle of all men being equal.  Being racist, sexist and loyal to the group would be the opposite of being WEIRD.  It would explain why reds are clinging so much to the old values and people most like them.  That's being tribal.  That seems to be what they are.

It goes in spades to the Middle East.  Groups with like associations of tribe, region, religion and so forth will strive against other similar groups.