Where they come from, the clan, the tribe, the gang is the primary social unit, not the individual. This psychology is so deeply ingrained, you cannot change it in a generation or two. And it’s not just psychology. It is backed up by ideology, religious fervor, economics, survival and probably genes. ABN
UPDATE: This video shows the value of novel experiences. What is most interesting to me is these novel experiences are fairly mundane, ordinary, simple and small — just new odors or fragrances. I believe novelty can also be found in many other simple and small things or experiences. And, it seems to me, many human moral and existential mistakes can be understood as excessive novelty-seeking. Taking strong drugs, overmuch or weird sex, committing crimes, riding motorcycles too fast (my own worst failing in this arena), etc. We can find deeply rewarding novelty through pursuing philosophy on our own; in meditation; in exploring psycholinguistics through FIML practice; taking a walk in the woods and allowing ourselves to get lost; just looking in a different direction or an unexpected direction right now. It is generally wiser to seek and find novelty in ways that are not excessive, meaning harmful to ourselves or others, or immoral. A lot can be learned about ourselves by analyzing how and why we seek novel experiences. A good deal of what you do may be novelty-seeking known to you by another name. Powerfully novel experiences than harm no one are the best. ABN
City Hall is warning that 14,000 hotel rooms will be needed until at least the end of next year when the total cost of providing for the new arrivals will reach a staggering $5.76 billion.
‘The taxpayers can’t pay for this indefinitely,’ Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute think tank told the NY Post. ‘We should stop using hotels as shelters by the end of the year.’
This is entirely normal human behavior, predicted by me and many others to be the inevitable response to treasonous massive immigration, illegal or not, fostered and promoted by treasonous government officials. In a world dominated by tribes, individuals are safer when they are members of a tribe. The West has generally attempted to become a non-tribal or post-tribal civilization based on individual rights and fairly administered laws. This attempt has failed not from the bottom up but from the top down. Government officials have grossly abused their powers and overstepped the bounds of human tribal tolerance. The more of this happens and the sooner it happens, the better — because the longer you wait the worse the problem will become. There is no stamping out tribalism without stamping out the British people. These statements apply to the entire West, given small differences due to regional conditions. It is not only not wrong to re-tribe, it is stupid not to. Westerners right now are paying for their own annihilation. ABN
Speech—psycholinguistics—is a major theater of mind control. If you can control speech you can control minds. Never allow anyone to control your speech if what you are saying is true, reasonable, and not purposely obstreperous. Beware of people who call for restrictions on speech or changing the First Amendment; they are totalitarians attempting to seize total power. Once they have it, you will never get it back. ABN
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