The Nature Of Man - The UT Instinct - Chapter 6

The Nature Of Man - The UT Instinct

Chapter 6

The UT Group

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The term UT Group could be replaced by the term Hightribe, though it would be important to understand that the Hightribe could be a logical tribe - as well as being an actual physical tribe. But it might help you understand the following chapters better.
Introduction
There are a few points I would like to make at this juncture, so as to, hopefully, prevent the reader from being 'side-lined' down irrelevant roads of thought. Most importantly; any, and all, of the examples in life which I use to explain the UT Instinct, of necessity, are going to be about particular events or particular countries, but I cannot stress enough that these do not reflect my personal judgement of those particular events or countries, in themselves.
This booklet is about Man, the species, and that includes everybody who is alive today, everybody who has been a member of this species up to this point in time, and everybody who will be a member of this species who will live in the future. Judging (right v wrong, good v evil, legal v illegal), in a limited way, is useful in practical terms, as regards everyday living and the organising of society, but this booklet is about Man and Man's evaluation mechanism so it is pointless to judge an individual or group of individuals or even a country because what I am describing relates to EVERY human being.
This stance automatically means that I also do not justify any action by anyone - I am merely explaining the 'thought processes', or instinct, behind those actions. You must understand the above very clearly because I have no intention of including these statements in every sentence I write from now on.
To a certain extent the reasons why I choose particular countries within examples is because usually they are perceived, by those in the West, as being exemplary and I wish to demonstrate the UT Instinct and how it makes us evaluate in such a subjective and erroneous fashion. There is nothing personal in anything which follows. I am merely explaining. If you don't like it blame the nature of Man - in you!
[At this stage of the booklet you should also realise that there is no point in judging others for the very reason that your values, and morals etc, against which you are going to compare the actions of others, has already been shown to be useless and meaningless as regards objective values etc; thus judging is an irrational act and all it does is to show your own UT Instinct, and your own evaluation mechanism, feverishly at work. Though, as I've already stated, I do admit to the necessity of fair and logical laws - with subsequent punishment etc. if required]

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UT Groups
Because the UT Instinct is so instinctive! and the ordinary thoughts of Man so irrational it is not possible to give exact and precise definitions of the UT Instinct. What I hope to do is demonstrate the UT Instinct and its resultant behaviour and instinctive 'logic'. Any definitions are, thus, general in nature.
Although Man originally 'evolved' in close physical tribal situations these tribal situations have changed and to use terms like 'tribal' readily helps us to fall into the error of thinking in terms of a physical tribe. Man is conscious and has self-awareness and is able to communicate specific notions (sometimes well, sometimes badly, as in this booklet!) and thus sometimes the UT Instinct is much more important within a 'logical' tribe - UT Group - rather than a physical tribe.
To understand the UT Instinct and its reality I will for the most part use the term UT Group. The UT Group could be loosely described as 'a group of people to which a person belongs within which be considers them to be equal, and bound by the same laws, regulations, and whose values are used by the UT Instinct'. The 'UT' stands for 'us' and 'them' and the UT Group is the 'us' group at any individual point in time.
One can belong to as many UT Groups as are necessary in ones life, and the dominant UT Group at any one point in time depends on the particular situation in which a person finds themselves at that instance.
The UT Instinct could be described as the controlling force behind Man's evaluation mechanism. And, just as is the case when we learn our mother tongue, and thus end up 'thinking' instinctively according to that language; we learn our tribal values and beliefs and thus instinctively 'think' and evaluate according to those tribal beliefs.
When I use the term 'instinctively' I mean that I, for example, think in a certain way, mostly due to the surroundings in which I grew up. At no point in time do I say to myself - I want to think like an Irishman who happened to be born in 1956 etc - I just do it. The fact is, I cannot think otherwise.
I cannot think like a Woman. I cannot think like an Aborigine. I cannot think like a White racist living in the southern states of the USA. I cannot think like a Black person. I cannot think like a Muslim, or a Communist, or a Terrorist. I can only think like I do - I am actually powerless to think like, or to have the exact moral values as, any one else. I am me - the subjective me - the instinctive me.
Our evaluation mechanism is based on our subjective values, and our morals are based on our subjective evaluation mechanism and thus our morals are not objective and rational (as we would like to think) but merely subjective 'tribal' instincts - the UT Instinct; and since our values are based on the UT Group (tribe) we are in, it turns out that we can have many varieties of 'moral values' depending on the UT Group we are in at any point in time.
The UT Instinct tells us in all situations, no matter how contradictory one value may be when compared to another, that we are being moral and civilised at all times eg the act of striking a person, and not striking a person may make one seem civilised IN BOTH CASES depending on the circumstances and UT Groups involved.

A person could be in the following UT Groups: (this is not an exhaustive list but merely a quick demonstration)
Gender group: male, female etc?
Sexuality group: heterosexual, homosexual, androgynous etc?
Employment group: employer, employee, unemployed, slave, retired, Public sector, Private sector, etc
Financial group: poor, rich, lender, borrower, stockholder etc
National group: Irish, French, Norwegian, Somalian, Cuban, Spanish, Russian etc
Religious group: Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, Shintoist, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu etc
Ethnic group: White, Black, Mixed, Aboriginal, Asian, native American Indian etc
Age group: baby, child, teenager, adult, elderly

Misc groups:
workgroup (police, doctors, lawyers, reporters, shop keepers, bank officials, judiciary, politicians, the clergy [priests] etc)
property (land owners, homeless, tenants, etc)
militants ('freedom fighters', terrorists, vigilantes, rightwing/leftwing groups etc)
community (township, rural, city-dwellers, islanders, borroughs, county, inland, costal etc)

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UT Goup Logic
This is the same logic as the One Tribe Scenario and the Two Tribe Scenario (without integration).
Here are some simple facts about the UT Group which will be explained later on.
Those within the UT Group are considered as being equal - those outside are not considered as being equal
Those within the UT Group deserve the protection guaranteed by the UT Group laws - those outside do not deserve the same protection
Benefits and rights are only for those within the UT Group
Those within the UT Group are considered as having a different set of laws, moral values etc (whether actual or not), as compared to those outside
Actions of those within the UT Group are judged differently to those same actions carried out by those outside that particular UT Group
Respect from those within the UT Group is important, respect from those outside is not (in most cases is actually unwanted)
There must be blind and unquestioned loyalty within the UT Group
To a certain extent the above points are all fairly similar and stem from the same general principle of the tribal, UT Group and bioent logic. The foundation of the logic rests on two main points. Firstly that Man is a dumb irrational bioent - without the UT Instinct be wouldn't be able to evaluate. Secondly, a person, as already discussed, is subjective and 'knows no better' than what be was brought up to believe. So bes values, morals, acceptable behaviour etc are considered as being the correct and proper ways according to that person.
What follows on from that is that the values, morals etc of the tribe are the correct and proper ways according to any member of that tribe. They cannot know any other way of thinking. This, because of the very fact that we are irrational and subjective, gives us the impression that our evaluations are rational, and that we are decent, civilised and 'moral' - and we are!, but only according to tribal and subjective criteria.
To cap it all we tend to consider that all these subjective traits are Truth, and not merely the subjective valueless nonsense that they are! In this case they really ARE! This is the major problem with Man, for if we had enough logic to truly realise that these traits are meaningless they would perhaps have slightly less control over our evaluation mechanism.
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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