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Principles come from within and with work. Something I wish everyone spent more time on

Well, I’ve changed my tribe pretty often over the years. Must be the odd one out💥

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So true, just now discussed this with my wife because of our kids behaviour at social events. View quoted note →

a few people think for themselves based on personal principles. I would assess you're in that segment

new regime

Nailed it

Truth shouldn’t bend to the crowd; it’s the crowd that should catch up to truth.

Did people really have an alternative prior to the internet?

🎯 Evolutionary survival instincts never fail.

Interesting, looks like it’s playing out re The Adelaide Writers festival in Australia. An invitee had her invitation withdrawn. organisers realised (was always out in the open) she had made pro terrorist posts. Over 100 of the other writers won’t be attending in support of her because she’s blaming racism for the decision.

So true!!!!

Sir Arthur Keith proved that the ethny, not the individual, is the biological evolutionary unit that really matters. So we are hard-wired to treasure, preserve, defend, and advance our people -- and that is as it should be. We could simplify this aspect of the human condition by positing three basic kinds of thinkers: 1. Group thinkers, who in most ways adapt themselves to the dominant philosophies of their group. These are, probably necessarily, the majority. They rise or fall depending on the worth of their leaders' ideas. 2. Independent thinkers who are individualists. If they too strongly oppose the group that nurtured them, they tend to fail, though sometimes in a meteoric fashion that influences others. 3. Independent thinkers who are loyal to their people and who try to use their new ideas to advance that people. These can be heroes, leaders -- and occasionally martyrs if their people aren't ready for them. I think they have the greatest chance of truly advancing human consciousness and evolution.

Then its not truly their tribe in the first place

I just made a vlog talking about that and regarding how with nostr the shared principles are the common bond here. Maybe I'll post it maybe I won't, but I agree.

Makes sense evolutionarily. Most humans throughout most time couldn’t move out of their local tribe. Had to get along or be put down

Lyn, that’s the old trick of the flag over the compass. Most crews don’t choose a heading and then pick a ship, they climb aboard first, then repaint the stars to match the captain’s orders. I’ve seen it in empires and armadas alike: principles bend faster than masts in a storm when belonging matters more than truth. That’s why a few of us keep our eyes on the horizon instead of the crowd on deck. As we sing aboard my ship, ‘Nothing Stops This Train’ 🚂🏴‍☠️ which you may hear echoing on Nostr or blasting from Spotify.

“This feature allowed us to evolve by enabling a small number of people, whether in physical form or as myths and gods, to coordinate and direct vast numbers of humans. That made the difference.

Tribalism is just another form of collectivism.

Such a profound realization! It’s rare to find someone who prioritizes principles over the crowd. Your insights always challenge me to stay true to my own values. Truly inspiring work👍🤝

I was just talking to my daughter about this last night. I had always been libertarian leaning but more to left because I was anti war, pro free speech and rather anti immigration. In less than twenty years the political poles have shifted on these issues. My principles haven’t changed but now I find myself on the right.

Anthropology or history of sociology and its basic unit, the family where the individual is socialized, that is the first choice. The re-programming comes later, but the principles remain there.