FOREVER HIGH 2
Why does it seem like we
are right back in High School? Here we
are, fifty friggin years old, and we have to put up with immature acting
cliques everywhere we go? Well, perhaps
not immature, but certainly illogical and jingoistic. Certainly, some of it has got to be a backlash. As the Politically Correct Police try to
force us through cultural pressure to make ALL groups equal ( a very unnatural
way of ordering our existence ), the natural reaction is to once again
violently form into exclusive groups fighting for dominance. Isn’t the silliness of PC just as moronic as
High School?
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Whiles Males are bad but
White Homo Males are okay but White Transgender or WhateverFrigginGender are
good-er. Blacks are prime victim class
but Black Males aren’t as and Black Females are better-er, and the stupid crap
just piles higher and higher in a huge putrid fetid mess. The culture attempting to make us all equal
is the worst in trying to differentiate us into cliques. At work, cliques are busy forming even as
corporate types are mostly a homogonous group of female Basket Weaving Degree
college graduates.
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The group that denies
gender differences or class is the busiest re-forming back into pre-Industrial
tribes ( even if the tribes aren’t cohesive in any way ). Why couldn’t they just be like the nerds and
use the Internet as their tribal pathway?
Well, the Internet was after all just a NASA or Cold War spinoff that
was only embraced by the High School cliques that were at the bottom
stratum. Remember, why was the original
scare about lack of Science & Math ( a scare that still scars youth today
as most of class is comprised of shoving those two subjects down their throats,
whether they have aptitude or not ) so pronounced?
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The Cold War was going to
be won, mere years after we became The Indisputable Nation, by those godless
commie bastards! They Launched Sputnik! We were all going to be nuked, nuked I tells
ya! More important than thermonuclear
war species annihilation, corporations were in danger of losing money! And their banking butt buddies bankrolling
them, what of those poor bastards? Why,
an economic contraction would cut into their bottom line! So, obviously, fund the heck out of science
and technology.
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Out of which came lots of
neat stuff funded by taxpayers and cashed in by the business/finances
classes. Like the Internet. Nerds loved the Internet. Money and riches were a Get Laid Quick
scheme, and as a bonus they could stay in their cocoons and socialize
safely. Don’t underestimate the safety
of the base. Charlie is outside the
wire. Bankers love the Internet. Free to them boosted control of all sectors
of the economy. Business loved the
Internet. Robotized jobs.
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Non-nerds, not so much
with loving the Internet ( it was a tool, rather than a Revolution-remember,
Nerd Love was predicated on actually getting laid. So was being a Corporation Man prior to
that. The Internet was revolutionary in
that its minders became sexually desirable ).
As a general rule, they didn’t have the crippling introverted
natures. They didn’t mind
Meatspace. Ah, but everyone could enjoy
the technological ability to Tribe -Up.
Welcome to FaceBook, where you can be the worlds biggest moron and all
your drooling buddies will Thumbs Up you.
No nerds need apply.
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Plus, nerd or not, the
norm became further tribalization. As a
backlash against PC, as a embracer of mass decentralization, as a cocooning
device ( remember the movie Trigger Effect?
Nerd gets Hottie. Nerd is mixing
with dangerous people in the theatre.
People are Other Tribes-like, gasp, Negroes! Message-you don’t have to
be racist to fear other people. Cocoon!
Cocoon! ). To all problems, the Internet
became the answer. Last grasp of
technology to cope with the collapse.
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Now, what is the primary
feature of tribes? Group Think. It can be looked at negatively, as a dumbing
down. But that is to ignore its positive
evolutionary nature. It IS
consensus. Consensus means the group not
only forms a united front against dangerous outsiders, it teaches the lowest
denominator how to protect themselves.
Let’s face it, FaceBook users or the village idiot, most people are NOT
very intelligent. That is why culture is
so important. It is reality to the
group, the group acts without thought because stopping to think is dangerous in
times of danger.
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And the dumbest of the
tribe just mimics the proper survival training which is what culture is all
about. Cultural mores don’t have to make
sense, except in that they increase the groups chances of survival. Obviously, it doesn’t have to make sense to
other tribes. We may have zero clue why
cutting off a clitoris has a survival value, or not eating bacon, but it
obviously did ( even if only at one time ).
If a behavior stays advantageous survival wise to the group, it remains
in effect. Those ignorant of the purpose
of culture will of course be completely Tribal in their thinking and hate and
mock the other tribes.
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Group Think ( with its
positive tool “echo chamber” ) is nothing more than Going Tribal. And cliques are just a reaction against
others trying to stop that natural process.
So, yes, it probably does seem that there is a whole lot of “Forever In
High School” going on. It is just push
and pull, action and reaction. Attempt
to artificially remove grouping and you get more of it. It is also, obviously, a further sign we are
far deeper into the collapse. Before,
there was some value in NOT going tribal.
Of embracing the nation states institutions. Now that all those institutions are in
freefall collapse and there is only danger in embracing them, tribalism is more
eagerly embraced than ever.
END ( today's related link http://amzn.to/2FlFGDa )
* By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there
For he majority of folks. High School, was the height of their mundane lives...
ReplyDeleteI still maintain perhaps a handful out of the 180 in my graduating class. Never have gone back for a reunion.
So...I'm the weird, antisocial, withdrawn, hateful, fearful one? Or, am I the only normal one? Don't answer! :)
DeleteActually, I'd say we are much alike.
DeleteI consider that a good thing too.
BTW, got your gift...thank you much ! However you really shouldn't. Then too, you realize I will get even buwahaha.
You have been beyond kind with your gifts to me-I feel I'm still struggling to keep up.
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