Below I've included a link and a couple videos for you to watch. These sources unknowingly introduce some key things you need to understand in order to figure out what is motivating the political crisis in the West and in America in particular.

I started this project in a recent post Sociality Rules (Tribalism) . And I thought, what the hell, I'll just finish up what I started. Some tragically motivated part of me still wants somebody—anybody—to understand Homo sapiens the way I do.

An updated discussion of (instinctual) Sociality will be published as an addendum to this essay.

Despite my best defensive instincts screaming duck and cover, keep your head down, try to stay invisible, I plan to publish a short essay to try to explain how human nature drives the political & polarization crisis in the West. I will of course be using my model of human nature as described in the 4th flatland essay . In so doing I will fill in many of the gaps in that model. In particular, I will finally fulfill this promise—

I have zero confidence that those reading this or the provided link or those watching these videos will not find a way to distort my view of things. You almost certainly will. For example, if I cite a source—any source—your astonishing Big Brain will find a flaw (or flaws) in that source, attribute those flaws to me by assuming that I agree with everything the flawed source says or has ever said, and thereby discredit anything I say based on that source or anything I have ever said period

I have a simple response to such primitive but sadly typical human "cognition"—screw you. I don't much care for humans anyway. So you can't comment on this post or any future posts either.

I am not political. I don't have a dog in this fight. And I know (not think, surmise, hypothesize, believe, etc.) that at the evolutionary level of abstraction, all humans are the same regardless of their skin color, gender, ethnicity, sexual proclivities, etc. I know that they're all deeply fucked up, though some are way more fucked up than others. I guess my view is the ultimate form of identity politics—if you're human, you're fucked up. Me too.

Or should I say #MeToo?

First, read this article from Quillette, which is one the few websites I look at anymore.

Individuals And Symbols by Neema Parvini.

Then, watch this video from the YouTube channel Rebel Wisdom. These people talk about humans running scripts (programs) instead of collaboratively exchanging thoughts. But of course! — that's how humans respond when there are threats to instincts. Those "scripts" are evolutionary products. Also note the discussion of dehumanization after the 10:00 mark. Bear in mind that dehumanization is a filter in the Flatland model.

And finally watch this Tim Pool video on the very important Hidden Tribes report. Also consult The Atlantic article on that report which Tim talks about.

Yeah, sure, Tim is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but what's he's talking about in this video is important because all these inter-tribal political fights are actually fights among social elites.