How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
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How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Is it possible to break down "us vs. them" mentality? How?
I suggest:
* Ban on team sports on large/nationwide levels.
* Ban on non-professional uniforms (police officers should carry a uniform as part of their profession, but uniforms symbolizing an ideology or religion should be banned - like Ku-Klux-Klan-uniforms and niqab etc.). Also, school uniforms should be banned.
* Abolish conscription in countries where any such thing exists.
* Make it legal to desecrate private possessions of national symbols (ie. if you own a flag of your own country, you should be free to burn it).
* Other bans on nationalism.
I suggest:
* Ban on team sports on large/nationwide levels.
* Ban on non-professional uniforms (police officers should carry a uniform as part of their profession, but uniforms symbolizing an ideology or religion should be banned - like Ku-Klux-Klan-uniforms and niqab etc.). Also, school uniforms should be banned.
* Abolish conscription in countries where any such thing exists.
* Make it legal to desecrate private possessions of national symbols (ie. if you own a flag of your own country, you should be free to burn it).
* Other bans on nationalism.
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction...
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
That might work on global level between the most powerful nations.Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:33 pm nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction...
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I'm asking: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality from the root - down to the smallest level - human to human, in workplaces, in small neighboring towns/communities etc.?
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
abolish familiesphilosopher wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:16 pmThat might work on global level between the most powerful nations.Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:33 pm nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction...
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I'm asking: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality from the root - down to the smallest level - human to human, in workplaces, in small neighboring towns/communities etc.?
tear that baby out of the mother's arms at birth, it is nothing but a worker drone for the magnanimous state
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Very simply just do not have a "us" verse "them" attitude. Truthfully there is NO "them" existing anyway.
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
When you begin to recognise "their" deeply human flaws in yourself the distinction disappears.
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Yet people insists on "White Supremacy", "True Muslims" and the like.
I hate those claiming to be "true" muslims, as much as I hate those claiming to be "true" christians, jews, atheists, whites, europeans, americans, russians, chinese or whatever "true scotsman"-fallacy they claim to be the one and only "truth".
Nazis are evil. So are the ones the nazis hates - the jews and muslims and christians and just about everybody else.
People should stop claiming their group is the only legitimate group in the entire world.
People should start becoming individuals and stop belonging to any particular group.
Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
It's rooted deep in human nature due to genetic memory, it can be reversed temporarily by "group think" having a strong pacifistic leader, once such leader either are dead, disliked or overwhelming hate takes over people will revert back to their primitive caveman nature.
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Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Except of course that primitive caveman nature was much more likely to be co-operative given the world they lived in.HexHammer wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2019 3:42 am It's rooted deep in human nature due to genetic memory, it can be reversed temporarily by "group think" having a strong pacifistic leader, once such leader either are dead, disliked or overwhelming hate takes over people will revert back to their primitive caveman nature.
Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Just look for what we have in common with each other. Then, at least we can band together according to real issues and not artificial constructs such as nation, race, gender, and so forth.
Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
Plan A: Seek unity and solidarity.
Plan B: Leave them alone.
Plan C: We kill them, or they kill us.
Plan B: Leave them alone.
Plan C: We kill them, or they kill us.
Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx
The answer is to make sure by all means possible that everyone obeys the laws and dictates of your socialist leaders assuring a glorious time of peace.
The answer is to make sure by all means possible that everyone obeys the laws and dictates of your socialist leaders assuring a glorious time of peace.
Re: How can we defeat "us vs. them" mentality?
In a glorious time of peace there's no human need for any laws thus 'obedience' and 'opposition' lose their meaning.
Rinse. Repeat.
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Plan D: Aliens. They swoop dow, try to harvest our resources or women, and...
...mankind unites to beat back the BEM.
This, of course, is just shifting the place cards around: 'us' is mankind, 'them' is the alien invaders.
I'm thinkin' mebbe 'us' vs 'them' is a hard feature of human psychology, a feature not easily tossed into the waste bin, and -- mebbe -- we ought not try.
This, of course, is just shifting the place cards around: 'us' is mankind, 'them' is the alien invaders.
I'm thinkin' mebbe 'us' vs 'them' is a hard feature of human psychology, a feature not easily tossed into the waste bin, and -- mebbe -- we ought not try.
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"primitive caveman nature was much more likely to be co-operative given the world they lived in."
Cooperative with members of his own tribe and family, yeah.
Not so much with competing tribes.
It's 'us' vs 'them' all the way back.
Cooperative with members of his own tribe and family, yeah.
Not so much with competing tribes.
It's 'us' vs 'them' all the way back.