Reply #138: It's a VERY faulty assumption, we humans being what we are. [View All]

[Karenina]

Solidarity between communities (tribes) requires hard work and a serious commitment to game theory.

The connexions between Palestinians and Israelis who have joined together for peace in one of the most intractable clusterfucks on this globe are a shining example. However, how many Americans have ever heard of their untiring and LIFE-THREATENING efforts? How many can fully take in the small "h" holocausts perpetrated in their names on every continent? In pursuit of exactly what, again? Me? Who?

See: Meehoo and Exactlywatt. http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/32623-Sheldon-Allan-Silverstein-The-Meehoo-With-An-Exactlywatt

Some learn from others' experience.
Some learn from their own experience.
Some are permanently stupid, can't or refuse to get it, no matter what,( ESPECIALLY if their salaries depend on NOT GETTING IT).

Was it Mark Twain, 'You cannot reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into.' Close, if no cigar.
That leaves the hard-core "Book" thumpers out. There may be a significant number of their go-alongs who, in the name of self-interest, can be peeled away with some interaction, truth-telling and education. The realization of the threat to THEIR rights will shock many into consciousness.

And when that's what it takes I call it a GOOD THING!

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