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Tuesday, October 7. 2008

Tribal Elders and politics

Our own Dr. Bliss and our net friend AVI are our go-to people on tribalism.

For better or worse, tribalism is in our blood. It probably was essential for human survival, and probably still is for non-human primate survival. Probably for us, too, if we value our own culture at all. I do value mine - my culture and my subculture.

AVI takes a look at Tribal Elders, Young Turks, and politics.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, Politics, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 11:49 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I honestly didn’t see much difference between those skull n bone Yalies who came from money and power, did screwy stuff when they were young but ‘matured and repented’, married well, didn’t do much in business relative to their forbearers then became professional politicians, then wound up claiming to be the best potential tribal elders in the biz.

Yet, they’ll always be the Corrupt Chimpy to some, that Vietnam War Traitor to other wee folks. I really wish these skull n bones ‘tribal elder’ elite guys would focus more on the complexity of macroeconomic causes and effects, instead of playing donkey-tail with each other.
#1 commander clopfelter (Link) on 2008-10-07 15:25 (Reply)
But donkey-tail is that game. Macro is another game.
#1.1 BD on 2008-10-07 20:46 (Reply)

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