[ExI] Protest

[Darin Sunley]

Tribalism would be significantly more functional if we didn't, for some
reason, insist on building transnational empires instead of nice, small,
relatively stable ethnostates.

I mean, I can sort of see it, because those nice, contained, stable
ethno-states did start WWI. But it was the transnational empires getting
dragged in that really put the "W" in WWI.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 7:43 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Can we agree that for a long time humans existed as tribes?  Good.  Then
> you have tribalism - your tribe is right about everything.  The neighboring
> tribe isd a bunch of robbers and rapists etc.  A person with different
> clothes, face paint etc. was one to fear.
>
> This gave rise to xenophobia - in the genes I assume.  So humans
> discriminate against anyone different, just like the hens pecking to death
> a chick who looks malformed.
>
> Not like us - that's the motto.  It can be skin color or just anything.
> And we still do it-  by race, by religion, by nationality and so on.  All
> the way back.  A million years?
>
> Fear is our most important emotion.  It keeps us alive.  It goes back to
> the beginning.
>
> bill w
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:42 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 12, 2020, at 6:45 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Racism has been cutting lives short for over a century.  adrian
>>
>> How about ever since different races appeared?  I keep saying that
>> racism, sexism and some other isms are perfectly normal; expected.  It
>> would be astonishing if they weren't bases for discrimination (not
>> prejudice - we in the South know blacks quite well and are not prejudiced.
>> Discriminatory, of course.)
>>
>> bill w
>>
>>
>> Not really. If you go back far enough, yeah, people do discriminate, but
>> it’s along different lines. For instance, recall the piece I sent citing
>> Bacon’s Rebellion. That was mostly a class rebellion but the authorities
>> managed to drive a wedge between lower class Whites and Blacks. This meant
>> that before the rebellion Blacks and Whites were working together against
>> the upper class.
>>
>> Of course, if meant when modern racial classifications took root, okay,
>> but those were fairly recent. They start in the modern period and
>> particularly pick up steam in the late 18th century. They don’t go back to
>> prehistory or even ancient times.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
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>>
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