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Chiming in a bit late here one of the big differences beeetwn humans and other higher animals , is that most of our instincts have been demoted to prepared learning. (The most prominent exceptions are the infantile instincts, and certain social patterns.) Note that prepared learning is explicitly not a blank slate the stimulus has to be vaguely appropriate to trigger the embedding but it does have some flexibility, and a given choice tends to be passed down to each successive generation.To address one example above the supposed “natural†subservience of low-status ethnicities (or of women) is pretty clearly cultural well, sort of. The particular choice of underdog is certainly cultural but forming a dominance hierarchy is instinctive, and in this respect we're quite similar to other mammals. That subservience is part of that instinct, because the whole point of having a dominance hierarchy is to avoid continuous fighting over social status, property, mating opportunities, and so forth. Accordingly, once someone is established as subordinate, not only will they themselves tend not to challenge that, but if they do, everyone joins in smacking them down, including their fellow subordinates. Rearranging the hierarchy is possible for humans, precisely because we specialize in seeing how things might be different but it's not easy, because we're still mammals underneath. And eliminating the hierarchy I don't think that's possible. When it's been tried, what we see is that it just goes undercover. Everyone may be equal in name but some people get listened to more, or are just better at getting their way, or control resources that give them more pull.As far as that wi-fi logo, I didn't think of goatse, so Abi's hinting had me wandering gripping jail bars? Maybe something about black power? what haven't I heard about?
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Memey
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16 december 2014, 10:20:22
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