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[–] Commxende 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The one thing I'm unsure of is this: I think most of us understand this aspect of human nature and how it is exploited. Why is the seemingly obvious so difficult to grasp for many others? Was there a time when humans all understood this, or have these group identity charlatans been around since the beginning of time? Has this group identity exploitation been on the rise or fall? If it's been on the rise, why are people less savvy to certain aspects of human nature now?

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[–] whitewomenarewhores 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Group identity has been with us since the dawn of time. It is perhaps the most primitive of all human concepts aside from the desire to feed, shit, and fuck.

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[–] Commxende 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No doubt, but somewhere along the way (very early on) people started using it as a means of political power. And it's still working to this day. How can people be so easily fooled for tens of thousands of years? The same trick used over and over. If aliens are watching the human species, what they see is the equivalent of when you pretend to throw a stick and the dog goes looking for it, over and over and over again.