Re: "Labour has failed to offer us a Left wing Brexit - so our only option is the Right wing Conservativ Archived Message
Posted by dereklane on December 10, 2019, 5:35 pm, in reply to "Re: "Labour has failed to offer us a Left wing Brexit - so our only option is the Right wing Conservativ"
That is an interesting story. I suspect (based on historical evidence of very long term indigenous groups that were by and large peaceful for longer than western civilisation has existed) that the same would be true if the violent controllers were removed. That's a big swathe of the population these days though; there aren't just those in power but those waiting in the wings(in perhaps every demographic).weve been taught on so many levels that violence (and bluster, bullying, name calling, and all violence's lesser cousins) pays. And, most seem to believe it, that life is (by its essence), cruel, Brutish and short and that if we wish to survive we must be cruel and brutish. It's definitely not in our dna, but it is in our psyche. I think people fantasise about an apocalyptic event, but probably for the wrong reasons. The narratives on such nearly always follow the line that the tough survive and the rest don't. I blame it on popular evolutionary theory from the 1800s (survival of the fittest), as opposed to the more nuanced theories today on that subject. It struck a chord, I think, with the middle and upper class imperialists at the time and washed down through the education system to become some of our deepest core beliefs. Anyway, thanks, you'd think if the baboons can do it, we could at least try!
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