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> buy into the tribalistic pressures around us to simply act like everyone else Does anyone else appreciate the delicious irony that parent is hitting all the
by smallnamespace 9y ago
> buy into the tribalistic pressures around us to simply act like everyone else
Does anyone else appreciate the delicious irony that parent is hitting all the right notes for an appeal to the tribe while at the same time criticizing tribalism?
1. Establish an 'us' vs. 'them' distinction ('I presume on sites like this')
2. Subtly denigrating outsiders ('draws many people outside the superficial social norms.')
3. Establishing higher common values ('That conflict causes a choice, we would seek to do the "better" thing')
Trying to be original, individualistic, and nonconformist what everyone is taught in the US from an early age.
- jacquesm 9y agoMonty Python nailed this sort of thing perfectly in 'The Life of Brian' in the 'You are all individuals' scene near the end.
- white-flame 9y agoThat's strawmanning my point pretty hard. There is no "us" and "them" in what I'm saying. There's a bunch of varying individuals, and ad-hoc grouping whereever there's some perceived similarity. The problem is that that grouping instinct goes overboard, and when nonsense or applicability of what emerges from the grouping pressure isn't questioned at all. This happens in small groups as well as large ones, so it's not even a majority vs minority issue. It's simply one of being swept up in our default reactionary ways, and when that is challenged, projecting an assumption that everybody is swept up in the same way as ourself (as the author does) because of that exact same instinct.