The Nature Of Man - The UT Instinct - Chapter 5

The Nature Of Man - The UT Instinct

Chapter 5

The Two Tribe Scenario

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For this scenario we can imagine the Hightribe and the Lowtribe being forced to come together because of circumstances outside their control. In general there can be two basic results: integration, or non-integration.
Integration
In this scenario the children from the Hightribe and the Lowtribe grow up together and make friends and eventually intermarry. Although both tribes may keep their own gods and rituals there will be a growing acceptance of the beliefs of each of the tribes; they will still be different but will be considered as valid as the other.
The beliefs of the tribe will gradually weaken as they inter-dissolve with those beliefs of the other tribe. Acceptance of an alternative belief will automatically lessen the dogmatic enforcement of one's own beliefs. One cannot say 'the taboos of the other tribe are legitimate' and yet say that they are not correct and need not be observed, nor strictly followed.
The tribal laws - like the 'do-not-rape-a-female-of-the-Hightribe' law (and its parallel Lowtribe law) will automatically become the 'do-not-rape-a-female-of-the-us-tribe'. In fact the true, logical wording for the laws of the Hightribe, in the first instance, would have been be a case of 'do-not-rape-a-female-of-the-us-tribe' but within the Two Tribe Scenario - with integration - the 'us' incorporates the Lowtribe also, but the subjective logic is the same.
Ultimately they will, to all intents and purposes, become a unified new tribe, which will bring us back to the One Tribe Scenario - though not quite! (This section could be expanded as it has many implications as to Man's behaviour, and sheds light on 'modern living' and 'modern values', but as that would not necessarily shed much light on the UT Instinct I shall not develop this any further - for the moment).
Non-Integration
This scenario is full of violence, hatred, antagonism and destruction. This is the Hightribe and the Lowtribe at loggerheads with each other. This is the struggle for power over the other tribe - power to 'neutralise' the other tribe, so that one's own set of tribal values are supreme, and are the only survivors of the tribal 'war'.
One of the tribes will have more power than the other. In this scenario the Hightribe are the dominant tribe and the Lowtribe are the subordinate tribe. The very basis of tribal logic will prevail; the members of the 'us' tribe - the Hightribe - deserve the comforts, and protection, for being a member of that particular tribe.
This necessarily excludes those who are not members, thus giving logic to a situation where these comforts, and protection, are denied to those who are not members - those who do not deserve the mutual respect of members of the Hightribe. One could say that a very tribal phrase is - 'they don't deserve X' (where that which is deserved - X - is a positive thing eg rights, justice, protection, respect etc) and the 'they' are those not of the same tribe.
The children of each tribe will attend separate schools and not only won't be encouraged to mix with children from the other tribe but will actively be discouraged from doing so; for each tribe will not want their children's values to be diluted, or tainted, by those of the other tribe.
There will be separate and distinct areas where each tribe lives; after all, the logic of the tribal protection is that all members of the same tribe have the same set of moral values and the same level of civilisation, and are tribally mutually 'equal', thus 'ensuring' protection to each member of the tribe from one another. Living beside a member of the other tribe would be unpalatable; like living beside not only strangers but strangers which are a perceived threat to the well-being of the family.
With the Hightribe in control they will automatically consider the members of the Hightribe as deserving the 'good life' and thus the schools, homes, hospitals, transport system, social services and government services organised for the Hightribe will be of a higher order and importance than those organised for the Lowtribe. It is natural that the areas inhabited by the Hightribe will prosper and those of the Lowtribe will gradually turn into slums. Not only will this be seen as natural justice, for the Hightribe will truly believe that their population deserve these extra facilities, but that the very degeneration of the Lowtribe standards of living will, in the minds of the Hightribe, 'prove' that the Lowtribe are not, and were never, equal and thus do not deserve equality.
Needless to say this scenario will lead to nothing but violence and confrontation. The polarisation will be such that the 'traits' of each of the tribes will be magnified and exaggerated not only for their ordinary tribal value but also to reinforce the differences between the tribes.
A member of one tribe wanting to marry a member of the other tribe would be seen as the action of a traitor. Likewise anyone trying to obtain justice for members of the other tribe would be seen as disgracing their own tribe for even thinking that the other tribe deserved the same justice as their own tribe; the logic being that justice and equality were only for those who were equal, thus denying the other tribe the chance for equality.
Although this is just a scenario it describes the UT Instinct and describes the nature of Man and thus has frightening parallels in Man's savage and barbaric past, bes present and, unfortunately and inevitably, bes future.
If you want to contact me to discuss, or to get me to clarify, a specific point, please only do so AFTER reading the whole section about the UT Instinct. Thank you.

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Last Update : 2nd October 2009

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