Ah, but I was only dealing with platform wars, not genuine social conflict.
Still, it reflects the general model for tribal, political or social dissent.
Support of football teams can best be understood as a tribal situation,
especially in a sports mad environment like this city.
But then, some Australians get tribal about Ford vs. Holden (GM).
Everyone feels a need to belong.
After that, it's all downhill.
Andrew Fildes
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On 16/12/2010, at 12:12 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Andrew, you forgot the part about where one set of believers decides the
> other set are anathema, and must be obliterated lest their beliefs pollute
> the true believers. I don't think the Windows/Mac debate has reached that
> point yet, but it certainly illustrates in principle how more than a hundred
> million people can die in one lousy century of warfare.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> This is getting boring as it always does.
>> One set of true believers suggest that the other set are 'true believers'.
>> Set two respond by uttering marginally misleading statements about set one.
>> Set one snap back with equally selective criticisms.
>> Both retreat into daft dogma.
>> The worse, vague statistics get waved around.
>> Everyone, including onlookers, gets irritable.
>> No-one changes their mind on bit (this is, after all dogma not science).
>> A creed is what you choose to believe (credo), and you may be wrong.
>> Stop it before you go blind.
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