Australian war poll

[Bill Bartlett]

At 12:38 PM -0500 1/4/03, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>... The farther a person moved from his/her peasant/workingclass
>roots, the weaker the sense of tribal solidarity.  This is why the
>popularity of both group sports (football - both American and European
>variety) and collective violence (warmonering, support our troops and
>our home-team) is particularly popular among the lower class males.
>
>Another factor is male bonding which emphasizes hierarchy and
>submission/domination relations - you have to submit to the alpha- male
>and dominate as many other males as possible, you have to be loyal to
>the male collective, whether it is a gang, a home team, or "our" troops.
>Women tend to form more personal and reciprocal relationships, whereas
>males tend to be psychologically defective and cannot function well
>without the collective -

Speak for yourself.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas