Friday, February 02, 2007
Tell Me Why
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It has to be this way because of POWER. People in power use one of the strongest emotions known to mankind. People are followers. It is part of our DNA, and has served mankind well. Tribal and group emotions are strong. Groups are bound together by leaders who proscribe dictates, customs, cultural norms that cause the group to be different and thus have and identity that binds the group together. Groups and tribes require strong leaders. These behaviors make the group act as one and make the group stronger than the individual.
Before civilization, this sort of behavior provided for the defense, safety and survival of the group or tribe.
People follow leaders. Leaders take away personal freedom to control their masses. The removal of personal freedom creates despicable living conditions. War and violence is easy to pursue because the leaders need to blame other groups for their miserable pathetic conditions that they find themselves in. But war creates the most despicable conditions of all.
I don’t think mankind has evolved enough to change this deep seated human emotion. Just think about your own tribal/group emotions; love of country, love of your culture, the language that binds your tribe together. You root for your local sports team. Why, because your tribal instinct makes you feel better than for some team from a distant place. You feel good belonging to a religion of like minded people. At the bottom of the tribal pyramid is the family. The family is bound together by the same emotion. It make the family stronger. But it also excludes your neighbor from the good things happening in your family. You feel good about it, but your neighbor may not be as well off. The head of that household can not provide for his family like you can. To maintain his control of the family he berates your family any way he can. The families eventually harbor animosity toward each other. Eventually violence breaks out between the families. Just expand this to countries and religions. The human group emotion is not likely to be take out of our genes anytime soon.
These conditions will be around for a long time.
Jack Shaft
It has to be this way because of POWER. People in power use one of the strongest emotions known to mankind. People are followers. It is part of our DNA, and has served mankind well. Tribal and group emotions are strong. Groups are bound together by leaders who proscribe dictates, customs, cultural norms that cause the group to be different and thus have and identity that binds the group together. Groups and tribes require strong leaders. These behaviors make the group act as one and make the group stronger than the individual.
Before civilization, this sort of behavior provided for the defense, safety and survival of the group or tribe.
People follow leaders. Leaders take away personal freedom to control their masses. The removal of personal freedom creates despicable living conditions. War and violence is easy to pursue because the leaders need to blame other groups for their miserable pathetic conditions that they find themselves in. But war creates the most despicable conditions of all.
I don’t think mankind has evolved enough to change this deep seated human emotion. Just think about your own tribal/group emotions; love of country, love of your culture, the language that binds your tribe together. You root for your local sports team. Why, because your tribal instinct makes you feel better than for some team from a distant place. You feel good belonging to a religion of like minded people. At the bottom of the tribal pyramid is the family. The family is bound together by the same emotion. It make the family stronger. But it also excludes your neighbor from the good things happening in your family. You feel good about it, but your neighbor may not be as well off. The head of that household can not provide for his family like you can. To maintain his control of the family he berates your family any way he can. The families eventually harbor animosity toward each other. Eventually violence breaks out between the families. Just expand this to countries and religions. The human group emotion is not likely to be take out of our genes anytime soon.
These conditions will be around for a long time.
Jack Shaft
