"It was easy to recognise 'them' when they belonged to an entirely different culture, but how is it done when 'they' belong to our own culture? The language, the customs, the appearance of the internal 'them' is not strange or unfamiliar, so the crude labelling and lumping is more difficult. But it can still be done. One sub-group may not look strange or unfamiliar to another sub-group, but it does look different, and that is often enough.
The different classes, the different occupations, the different age groups, they all have their own characteristic ways of talking, dressing and behaving. Each sub-group develops its own accents or its own slang. The style of clothing also differs strikingly, and when hostilities break out between sub-groups, or are about to break out (a valuable clue), dressing habits become more aggressively and flamboyantly distinctive. In some ways they begin to resemble uniforms. In the event of a full-scale civil war, of course, they actually become uniforms, but even in lesser disputes the appearance of pseudo-military devices, such as arm-bands, badges and even crests and emblems, become a typical feature. In aggressive secret societies they proliferate.
These and other similar devices quickly serve to strengthen the sub-group identity and at the same time make it easier for other groups inside the super-tribe to recognise and lump together the individuals concerned as 'them'. But these are all temporary devices. The badges can be taken off when the trouble is over. The badge-wearers can quickly blend back into the main population. Even the most violent animosities can subside and be forgotten. An entirely different situation exists, however, when a sub-group possess distinctive 'physical' characteristics. If it happens to exhibit, say, dark skin or yellow skin, fuzzy hair or slant eyes, then these are badges that can not be taken off, no matter how peaceful their owners. If they are in a minority in a super-tribe they are automatically looked upon as a sub-group behaving as an active 'them'. Even if they are a passive 'them' it seems to make no difference. Countless hair straightening sessions and countless eye-skin-fold operations fail to get the message across, the message that says, 'We are not deliberately, aggressively setting ourselves apart'. There are too many conspicuous physical clues left.
Rationally, the rest of the super-tribe knows perfectly well that these physical 'badges' have not been put there on purpose, but the response is not a rational one. It is a deep-seated in-group reaction, and when pent-up aggression seeks a target, the physical badge-wearers are there, literally ready-made to take the scapegoat role.
A vicious circle soon develops. If the physical badge-wearers are treated, through no fault of their own, as a hostile sub-group, they will all too soon begin to behave like one. Sociologists have called this a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'. Let me illustrate what happens, using an imaginary example. These are the stages:

1. Look at that green-haired man hitting a child.
2. That green-haired man is vicious.
3. All green-haired men are vicious.
4. Green-haired men will attack anyone.
5. There's another green-haired man - hit him before he hits you. (The green-haired man, who has done nothing to provoke aggression, hits back to defend himself.)
6. There you are - that proves it: green-haired men 'are' vicious.
7. Hit all green-haired men.

The progression of violence sounds ridiculous when expressed in such an elementary manner. It is, of course, ridiculous, but nevertheless it represents a very real way of thinking. Even a dimwit can spot the fallacies in the seven deadly stages of mounting group prejudice that I have listed, but this does not stop them becoming a reality.
After the green-haired men have been hit for no reason for long enough, they do, rather naturally, become vicious. The original false prophecy has fulfilled itself and become a true prophecy.
That is the simple story of how the out-group becomes a hated entity. There are two morals to this tale: do not have green hair; but if you do, make sure you are known personally to people who do not have green hair, so that they will realise that you are not actually vicious. The point is that if the original man seen hitting a child had had no special features potentially setting him apart, he would have been judged as an individual, and there would have been no damaging generalisation. Once the harm has been done, however, the only possible hope of preventing a further spread of in-group hostility must be founded on personal interchange and knowledge of the other green-haired individuals as 'individuals'. If this does not happen, then the inter-group hostility will harden and the green-haired individuals - even those who are excessively non-violent - will feel the need to club together, even live together, and defend one another. Once this has occurred, then real violence is just around the corner. Less and less contact will take place between members of the two groups and they will soon be acting as if they belonged to two different tribes. The green-haired people will soon start to proclaim that they are proud of their green hair, when in reality it never had the slightest significance for them before it became singled out as a special signal.
The quality of the green-hair signal that made it so potent was its visibility. It was merely an accidental label. No out-group has ever been formed, for example, of people who belong to blood group O, despite the fact that, like skin colour or hair pattern, it is a distinct and genetically controlled factor. The reason is simple enough - you cannot tell who 'is' group O, simply by looking at them. So, if a known group O man hits a child, it is difficult to extend antagonism towards him to other group O people.
This sounds so obvious, and yet it is the whole basis of the irrational in-group/out-group hatreds we usually refer to as 'racial intolerance'...


-- Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

Updated 5 Aug '11

A great percentage of my online submissions in various forums and networks are birthed as local drafts...So here is a couple of links that I've used for various purposes of citement, evidence or just plain interest over the past couple of months taken from the files.

This journal is a live work in progress, I might put it in my webspace sometime. I'm sure I can think of many more links to add later...But feel free to add anything of relevance to the comments.

I hope you find something interesting;


Bill Hicks;
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|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1CvW38cHA
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpjkDJMfLpA

David Icke;

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET9cnj3RfRU
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBhVFrm9vk
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5FhdzF6lM
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lMcm2ARXs

Other Species Co-Evolution;

+ www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php (AR Documentary)
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U00LMmC4 - Gary Yourofsky delivers his famed speech.
+ http://www.onlyonesolutionsite.org - Has the potential to fuck you up for life! No compromise, take no prisoners AR.
+ http://www.animalliberationfront.co.....20of%20war.htm - Sometimes, protests just don't compensate for what has been lost. Direct action then applies.
+ http://www.humanemyth.org/mediabase/1014.htm - LaVeck exposes the happy slave fraud via "your" critical thinking.
+ http://www.thesanctuaryworldwide.co.....farepage1.html - Marc Bekoff, "Welfarism isn't good enough"
+ http://vimeo.com/8073236 - Gary Francione explains moral schizophrenia and welfarist fraud
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWI2ntLHhs (You are the change)
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_jAQAQUfZo (Fur trade)
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKEAXOnogZU (Humans, aniboom)
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6NkRUbI38 (Oliver the chimp)
+ http://www.kerulos.org (The Kerulos Center - Transpecies Psychology)
+ http://negotiationisover.com/2011/0.....re/#more-18605 - Steve Best reflects upon on a selfish, suicidal species, wonder who?
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFeXwKnCUNI (Same gender relationships in other species)
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4G9CsLMvg (Same gender relationships 2)
+ http://www.unleashed.org.au/feature.....eat-the-truth/ - Meat the truth by Party for Animals
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8mzz8xt6AU - A hippo protects an impala?
+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxYiLzWee84 (Interspecies love defies anthropocentric laws of nature)

Interspecies relationships;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8YbYctzMc - Who are you to judge?

Answer is 42;

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35uTnQ7rmY8 - 'Life ain't like the game' by Oxhorn
+ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item.....eens_20100927/ - A World Lost in Screens, Chris Hedges --
+ http://www.esotericonline.net/group.....cientists-find - *****
+ http://thimbleanna.com/images/2009/.....ldUnicorn3.jpg - The Unicorn Hunt or 'humanities fall from grace' as they seek selfish material gain over 'oneness' and spiritual endeavour -
+ http://eco-health.blogspot.com/2010.....ing-queer.html | http://www.spike.com/video-clips/xh.....milk-gone-wild - Who are men to judge what a 'perversion' is for women?
+ http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML....._Potlatch.html - Are humans naturally capitalistic?
+ http://www.nonhumanslavery.com/how-.....ttle#more-3859 - Were humans always bastards?

The power to say that 2+2= ;

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/livesci.....rementisitsafe - Textured Shit Protein
- http://www.geniebusters.org/what-is.....-socialism.htm - Was Hitlers 'kampf' really emancipation from economic debt slavery imposed by a global elite of err ...money lenders?

Modding;

|- www.modarchive.org
|- OpenSPC (Snes900 Ripper)
|- Soundfont (www.modplug.com) (SBlive, 8gmgsmt.sf2)
|- Schism Tracker, CheeseTracker, Impulse Tracker,
|- Samples (Amiga Soundtub, ...)
|- Midi (Mid2mod)

C64 SID

|- GoatTracker

Ascii

|- AAlib, caca
|- http://www.chris.com/ASCII/

Random irrelevancies;

|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfI69DC_jaw (Ray Bradbury? Nuclear Fallout? Animation)
|- www.animalmakers.com/videogallery/m.....ges/CocaCola_sheep.php (Just an advert)
|- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEz7IfEAHA (Who'da thought MLP was a political enterprise?)
|- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qn21Z3MAmo (Colbert Report)
|- http://furry.booru.org/index.php?pa.....p;amp;id=71395 (Wraahh! Camel Vore)

Animation examples;

|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2kg7OJ4_8o (Trapdoor, clay)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvl30tbq7wA (Peter Gabriel, Big time, trippy)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0KwuA3RQFA (Robot Chicken, stop animation)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6LmqvnaEOY (Care bears, original)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iIgQN5uZE (MOO!)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3z2Pm7Iwg (Mark twain, clay animation)

Peculiarities;

+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apEZpYnN_1g (DR HORRIBLE)

Zeitgeist;

|- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXirzknYYE (ZG 1 FULL)
|- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg (ZG 2 ADDENDUM)
|- http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/
|- www.thevenusproject.com/

Software;

| - Netxx - Firefox, lynx, netcat, Steganography,
| - Media - VLC, blender, avidemux, gimp, AAlib(caca)
| - Audio - Audacity, schism, cheesetracker
| - Games - www.acid-play.com/download/simsheep-2, zsnes, snes9x, dosbox

Personal Development;

|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRcY58Izaw (Hyperspace)
|- www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-129JLTjkQ - Marshall Rosenberg on Non-Violent Communication
|- http://www.worlddreambank.org - Chris Wayan Dreambank

BOOKS;

|- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
|- 1984 (George Orwell)
|- The Rediscovery of man (Cordwainer Smith, M.A Linebarger)
|- Dune Series (Frank Herbert)
|- A Clockwork Orange (A. Burgess)

Who then is a saint and who is truly a sinner ?

From what do we pivot and gauge our moral benchmarks upon if there is no comparative origin reference point?
Do we owe the outer extremities of the worlds "good" and "evil" constituents some merit for providing potential criteria to the moral/ethical boundaries of philosophy and intellectual/physical possibility?
What is "good" and "evil" and by how do we define this...by personal opinion ?

What is the value of the majority personal opinion when it is swayed to the agendas of such power brokers whom are educated in political intrigue, the tools of statecraft, psychological NLP., etc...What motivational manipulations are you influenced by? (Emotions? Economic Blackmail? Political ideologies?) if so are you aware of it?

What do you choose to be? What do the fat controllers want you to be?
What do you want?
Whose agenda are you really serving?