7 years ago :: Jun 23, 2011 - 3:38AM #31 | |
Not as much as you'd think. The savages tend to fall into either "low dominance" (the followers) or "high dominance" (the leaders) groups. Now, low and medium dominance will do as they're told by a perceived authority but the high dominance group won't. They will either try to achieve positions of power in such a regime or revolt against it.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. ~ Proverbs 14:31
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7 years ago :: Jun 23, 2011 - 8:03PM #32 | |
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7 years ago :: Jun 23, 2011 - 10:44PM #33 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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7 years ago :: Jun 24, 2011 - 1:06AM #34 | |
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary.
For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9 |
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7 years ago :: Jun 25, 2011 - 1:55PM #35 | |
Perhaps we need to define "Barbarism" then we can maybe resolve this issue. Originally "Barbarism" meant not being a Greek. It was then refine to the hunting gathering lifestyle of the ancient Germans or the pre literate and largely rural Celts. Barbarism has taken on a more perjorative connotation of human behavior which is considered uncivilized such as the Conduct of the Nazis during WW2. Ironically in the late 19th Century and the period leading up to WW1 Germany was considered the apogee of Civilization. I would rather take my chances with the Cherusci and Teutons than with the Nazis.
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary.
For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9 |
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7 years ago :: Jun 25, 2011 - 8:52PM #36 | |
I would hardly put what happened in Vancouver on the same level as what the Nazis did. Nonetheless- I'm no psychologist, but it seems to me that there is an insidious side to such activities, and something about such people that can easily end up somewheres a lot more dangerous. In the early stages of the Nazi regime, after all, there was Kristallnacht. I submit that people who vandalize for no good reason, like people who harm animals for "fun", are going to have a greater tendency to end up engaging in more sociopathic things down the road. Not all of them- I presume many if not most just went along with the crowd, or maybe had a bit too much Molson- but the instigators, I would think, are worth worrying about. Of such are the Brownshirts and the Tonton Macoutes constituted. |
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7 years ago :: Jun 25, 2011 - 10:03PM #37 | |
I am a psychologist (well, studying psychology anyway) and you're mostly right. It's the instigators you need to worry about, not the followers. The followers are mainly frustrated idiots but the instigators, they're usually part of the dominant 15-20% or even one of the sociopathic 1%. There are three big warning signs that constitute what's known as the "homicidal triad": Bed wetting (beyond the age where that's common), animal cruelty (beyond the formation of externalised empathy at around eight) and arson in the teens. Now, none of those are reasons to worry on their own and, individually, they might well have innocent explanations (for example, the kid who wets the bed at age six might well have bladder problems) but when the three occur in the same person, look out.
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7 years ago :: Jun 27, 2011 - 4:37PM #38 | |
Most of the anarchists are kids, right? Like up to mid 20's in age typically. I wonder what is going on because we have other youth riots going on in DC, outside of Chicago and Philly. Rather violent riots that are not recieving much coverage. Something about kill whitey in the chicaco one, almost race riots.
I know the riots are not related but maybe they are on some level?
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7 years ago :: Jul 04, 2011 - 8:53PM #39 | |
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