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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 9:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

And if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bicycle. The process of creating an in group naturally creates out groups. The “brainwashing” OP describes is just as natural as social alignment through an innate drive for conformity.


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cwmooreyesterday at 10:43 PM

Conformity I think follows the innate drive to coerce the nonconformant into compliance

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pineauxyesterday at 10:52 PM

There is a pretty interesting study of a large group of chimps. I dont remember where exactly but they have been civil warring the last 15 years or so. Point is, it seems that there is some kind of innate group formation process.