Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 04 2013 @ 05:39 PM EDT |
Can I opt out of your civilization concept,
please?
It's evolution based, for one thing. And it's
history from a male perspective only, for
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Authored by: JK Finn on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 02:31 PM EDT |
It shouldn't be just a single "us" and "them", though. By
my personal experience, "us" could be just me, immediate
family, extended family, shared nationality, shared location
at some scale, shared financial framework at some scale,
shared species, shared employer, shared occupation, shared
hobby, shared some other interest... with "them" defined by
exclusion. It's all about the context.
A problem with cults as well as political and religious
affiliations is that there tends to be a tendency to just go
with the delineations derived the affiliation when defining
"us" versus "them", ignoring any relevant context.
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