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Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things... The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically co…
For example, Machiavellian types have long understood that whipping up religious fervor is a route to political power if they can be the ones who direct that aggression, and this can be applied to any religious organization, and similar in-group based ideological movements as well (communism, fascism).
It's particularly illustrative when a major religion is split by internal divisions and the two groups turn on each other with remarkable levels of savage violence, as with the Protestant-Catholic wars that raged across Europe for several hundred years, or the Sunni-Shia schism in Islam, a conflict that continues to this day and which is characterized by things like suicide bombings targeting mosques and so on. Typically you find the leaders of the various groups are political actors who work hand in hand with the priests/ministers/clerics/rabbis/preachers/ideologues to gain and consolidate political power, which, surprise, leads to the accumulation of wealth on their part. This was also a major justification for colonial European expansion in the Americas and genocidal attacks on native American populations (who, it must be said, also went to war with each other on similar grounds, see the Aztec Empire).
It's basically similar to in-group/out-group conflict in chimpanzee tribes, which is not surprising as chimps and humans share a fairly recent common ancestor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
During the four-year conflict, all males of the Kahama community were killed, effectively disbanding the community. The victorious Kasakela then expanded into further territory but were later repelled by another community of chimpanzees.
Forcing members of groups who hate each other to work together if they want to survive could be a way of ah, re-educating them... For example, take two such people, put them in a leaky rowboat out in the ocean, give one a paddle and one a bucket, and see if they can make it to shore. If they use their tools to attack each other instead of to cooperate, well... good riddance.
Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things... The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically co…
Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things... The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically co…
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> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university. Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university. College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs.…
>College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. This was not my experience in undergrad, literally at all. No idea where this comes from
It comes from many people’s experiences of collegiate sports which is full of rivalries, largely with no real basis. Except for LSU.
Each individual person is liable to become a "them" once one asserts one's individuality from the group identity. Group coalitions that do not respect individuality often fall prey to base emotions as they collectively punish individual identities. Individual creators are largely responsible for the actual work, new ideas, innovations, things... The feedback loop described in the OP creates groupthink, politically co…
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The Germans even have a word for it: Schadenfreude It comes from envy, the second deepest level in Dante’s Inferno. Dante’s cure for envy was sewing the eyes shut.
> The researchers had 35 male college students complete a competitive, aggressive task against either a student from their university or from what they were told was a rival university. Male college students, an “aggressive task”, and a rival university. College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. It’s the entire foundation of sports programs.…
>College students are literally trained to associate out-competing rival universities as a fun and desirable activity. This was not my experience in undergrad, literally at all. No idea where this comes from