01-21-2021, 11:06 PM
(01-21-2021, 10:50 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: Well, I must have been spending too much time around you, because I was kinda leaning in that direction, when I spoke have making the area undesirable.
My tribalism, if that is what you want to call it, is extremely loose. It seems to include all that I love and care about. It goes well beyond family, and is very strong when it comes to neighbors and friends. Even those ones that I don't like. Just like in my family, I have a few I don't like, but I love them, and would lay my life down for them.
Ask the LEOs and the doctors I work with, they will tell you I am ten times worse than a mother bear with new cubs, when it comes to my patients. So my tribalism spreads a bit farther than it does for most. Nothing noble, it is just the side effects of how I was born and raised.
I've ruined many a good woman and caused them to go bad like that!
But seriously, tribalism cleaves along different lines. They are not all racial or even cultural, and you have already drawn yours - your tribe does not include gangsters, apparently, and I don't see that as a BAD thing at all!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’