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From Ace at Breitbart:
- Pro-erdogan Turkish Paper: "god Bless Hitler;" Jews Should Apologize For Israel, Else Risk Violence
From Ace of Spades:Obama flatters himself by conceiving of himself as an "idealist" on foreign policy. He won't indulge or even acknowledge man's base and hateful nature; he'll just talk about a foreign policy that would work if men were...
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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists A Noble Beast Living In The Modern World From Ace of Spades: When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians,...
- Ace Notices We're On The Road To Serfdom
Ace of Spades is one of my favorite bloggers, but he is a bit late to the game on this one, isn't he? Well yeah, but at least he admits it, and he is as articulate as usual on the subject? From Ace: The term "feudal" is, I am thinking, fairly commonly...
- Culturism In Nature
We are hardwired to absorb the culture we’re brought up in. People quickly become partial to the ideology of their culture even if it is ridiculous. Tribes would die if each new person had to be rationally convinced of the logic of the tribe’s system....
- Racism Is The Most Natural Thing In The World
From Big Lizards: I don't mean that (the title) sarcastically at all: For most human beings, racism comes so naturally, they don't even know they're racists. Of course, being "natural" is not a synonym for being good. It's "only natural"...
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Lena Dunham: Let's Save the Nasty Lookist Attacks for Women Who Aren't Feminists
From Ace at Breitbart:
The voice of a generation speaks. Or Twits.
@lenadunham Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
This is ethically retarded (and I do mean that word, and it is the right word).
If you spoke to a 14-year-old gang member and asked him why the Reds aren't allowed in "his" territory but his gang, the Blues, should be allowed in the Reds', he wouldn't even bother making some kind of generally-applying ethical claim; he'd couch his language in that of pure force: Because we're tougher, or whatever.
You'd hear much the same thing from primitive tribesmen, I'd imagine. Broad ethical rules, which bind and protect all and not just your buddies, are a mark of civilization; mere personal loyalty -- they're my tribe, they're my gang, they're my friends, so they just have more rights -- and "rules" based on nothing but the simple possession of physical force enough to impose them are the marks of primitive cultures.
We call it "tribalism" because it's a mark of a more primitive social unit, the tribe or clan.
But while we accept that juveniles and primitives think in these terms, we generally expect adults living in civilized countries-- particularly those who seem to fancy themselves Television Intellectuals with Much to Say to the Youth of America -- as understanding that an ethical code cannot, and must not, devolve into "My Friends Get Special Treatment Just Because They're My Friends."
Here, Dunham doesn't even bother with a pretense of that. She makes no efforts to even dress it up as something other than it is, a pure power-based friends-first people-in-the-tribe-have-special-priviledges resort to juvenile thinking, or primitive thinking.
- Pro-erdogan Turkish Paper: "god Bless Hitler;" Jews Should Apologize For Israel, Else Risk Violence
From Ace of Spades:Obama flatters himself by conceiving of himself as an "idealist" on foreign policy. He won't indulge or even acknowledge man's base and hateful nature; he'll just talk about a foreign policy that would work if men were...
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Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists A Noble Beast Living In The Modern World From Ace of Spades: When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians,...
- Ace Notices We're On The Road To Serfdom
Ace of Spades is one of my favorite bloggers, but he is a bit late to the game on this one, isn't he? Well yeah, but at least he admits it, and he is as articulate as usual on the subject? From Ace: The term "feudal" is, I am thinking, fairly commonly...
- Culturism In Nature
We are hardwired to absorb the culture we’re brought up in. People quickly become partial to the ideology of their culture even if it is ridiculous. Tribes would die if each new person had to be rationally convinced of the logic of the tribe’s system....
- Racism Is The Most Natural Thing In The World
From Big Lizards: I don't mean that (the title) sarcastically at all: For most human beings, racism comes so naturally, they don't even know they're racists. Of course, being "natural" is not a synonym for being good. It's "only natural"...