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Sociology

Human nature expresses similarly in the organism and the group.

Humans organize themselves in two patterns.

  1. two halves
  2. a pyramid

Bifurcation, branching: blood vessels, snowflake, dendrites. Split repeatedly into heirarchy, growth.

(Fractal)

Team, split, halve, natural selection

Pyramid, hierarchy

Sociology Pyramid Halves Natural Selection

Foolish notions Equality Justice Nonviolence ahimsa Compete vs cooperate

Identity Individual Commu ity Country Planet earth Humanity Life Universe All

at what level did Warren Buffett identify with when he screwed Neveda homeowners? nestle, water theft oil companies fracking armaments companies news personalities

Even if we identify with all humanity, there are alternative ways to make decisions.

  1. humanist - cares about suffering, individuals,
  2. natural selection - cares more about the strength of humanity as a species and is willing to sacrifice individuals to make a stronger species

This same distinction is made at every level. Racism and nationalism, for example.

Collective Consciousness
Collective Behavior
Autonomous vehicles and drones cooperate
Collective improvisation: musicians, actors, comedians

Group Psychology
Group behavior is an expansion of individual behavior.
Group dynamics
Social Psychology
Society

Personalities fit together like lock and key proteins.

Learning thru mimicry of parents and society

Big fish eat the little fish. The strong devour the weak.

Equality Model

Egalitarian

“Well, our aim here at Matrix Masters is to provoke an unmuffled, ungagged, and unsilenced generation of world citizens into speaking up and taking the actions necessary to wrest control from the privileged few and to reclaim this planet in the name of all the humans, animals, plants, and other forms of life who share its bounty.”

In stark contrast to the Hierarchy Model. Male dominance.

Which is real? Why so many believe in Equality while the Hierarchy appears to be “built-in”.

Relative poverty causes crime. Unequal wealth distribution. Men want to climb the dominance hierarchy for access to women. Gini coefficient to aggression, high correlation, like .8. https://youtu.be/M3XYHPAwBzE Jordan Peterson

Social deprivation. Herd behavior of particles, photons. Religious experience. Howard bloom. https://youtu.be/5Qqpq8HeB5g

Self Destruction

Weapons accident: nuclear
Weapons accident: biological
Climate Change

Alcoholism
substance abuse
gambling
violence
crime

Groups

In humans:
family
neighborhood
club
church
school
government: municipal, state, federal
gang
cartel

In other animals:
flock
herd
pride

Government

of the organism, of the group

Plato, Republic, Book VIII
The five regimes, in both the individual and the state.
Aristocracy
Timocracy (Plutocracy)
Oligarchy
Democracy (Anarchy)
Tyranny

Geopolitics

Three large populations: China, India, the West. See populations spreadsheet on drive here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zcJYQgloLE-rA-qV-y3A4ykV-dRHCkbl73u-4r96gBY/edit#gid=0

Power: military, population, business, religion

The four estates: govt, religion, business, media, technology

Population is the only power that matters.

American foreign policy, good for middle east, bad for America.

China Belt and road initiative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America about ideological subversion.

Corporation

Corporate Personality
Corporate Behavior

Over-fishing Newport, cannery row Amed, outrigger canoes beached South Bali, three six inch fish cooked to crispy and eaten whole See Lanka, boat got a strike, next day every boat cane to throw it's nets down and try the same spot

Eat at McDonald's Drink soft drink Fruit juice sweetened with corn syrup Pizza, spaghetti, white flour, nonutritional value but a glycemic effect worse than that of sugar and fills your arteries with sludge Leading to diabetes and heart disease

CIA

Started by agriculture corporations, for the purpose of stealing resources.

It never had anything to do with intelligence or national security.

Allan Dulles of United Fruit Company.

United Fruit and Standard Fruit would buy bananas, pineapple and other tropical fruits from farmers in Central Ameria. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Hondorus. A good business, transport and distribution in North America. But that was not enough.

They staged a coup in each country, placed a puppet dictator in charge, who then nationalized the good farm land, and leased to United Fruit Company. The farmers who had lived and worked on the land for generations now found themselves without a livelihood, their way of life destroyed. Their only option was to work as a wage slave for the corporation.

When they fought back it was called a rebellion, a revolution, a civil war. The USA newspapers talked of coups and internal discord. But it was theft. Genocide.

And the American taxpayer took the fall for it all. They provided the guns, the money, the training and leadership.

United Fruit changed their name to Chiquita. Standard Fruit changed their name to Dole.

Petrochemical and military industries jumped on the bandwagon, and the CIA blueprint for grand theft of entire cultures has been repeated again and again around the world.

Layers

some of our psychological programming is a result of human interactions

some human actions are enforced by sociological patterns

Therefore a study of psychology is not complete without looking at sociology.

Business Enterprise

Organization Forms

  • open source
  • employee-owned
  • NGO, activist, charity
  • state-owned
  • family-owned
  • public listed
  • public unlisted
  • private
  • cartel, mafia
  • solo
  • criminal gangs

Lists

Control

business or state

sociology.txt · Last modified: 2023/03/26 10:00 by jhagstrand

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