[TADSLOS]

The fundamental reason why certain cultures remain static and never evolve (e.g., present-day villages in Egypt and India that have stayed pretty much the same for millennia) is the overwhelming extent to which the lives of the people within them are dominated by envy and envy avoidance: as anthropologists call it, the envy barrier.

For the Mambwe in Zambia, for example, "successful men are regarded as sinister, supernatural and dangerous." In Mexican villages, "fear of other people's envy determines every detail of life, every proposed action."

Members of a Hispanic "ghetto" in a community in Colorado "equate success with betrayal of the group; whoever works his way up socially and economically is regarded as a 'man who has sold himself to the Anglos,' someone 'who climbs on the backs of his own people.' "

It is an ultimate irony of modern times that left-wing Marxist-type intellectuals consider themselves to be in the progressive vanguard of sophisticated contemporary thought -- when in reality their thinking is nothing but an atavism, a regression to a primitive tribal mentality. What the Left calls "exploitation" is what anthropologists call "black magic."

Who could have predicted the extent that Obama Inc. played on these myths in such a devastating way 6 years later? He took tribal community organizing to the national level, and guilty white people swallowed the bait with abandon.

[Liz]

That IS interesting.

Obama is taking us down-—he plans to reduce the US to a primitive culture.

The concept of the US as a superpower is abhorrent to him.

[ForGod'sSake]

He took tribal community organizing to the national level, and guilty white people swallowed the bait with abandon.

Indeed, plowing organizing the fertile field of uncle josef's useful idiots.