 the pattern of mob morality, kind of tribal in-group, out-group dynamics that are still very much in human society. I drew a lot from the work of a philosopher, René Girard, I guess a philosopher slash anthropologist, and he described the original social problem as being retributive violence, blood feuds, tit for tat violence that escalate. So somebody, you know, wrong somebody else and they or their kin get revenge, but the original party feels that they were in the right, so they get revenge back on them and it just escalates and everybody has to choose sides. Which side are you on? You have to demonstrate that you're not with them, otherwise you're my enemy too. So the sides taking this violence spreads like a disease until it engulfs the whole society and rips society apart before it even really has a chance to get established. So the ancient solution to this existential crisis was to turn on a scapegoat or a small class of scapegoats, people who are semi outsiders in society and for everybody to get together and kill them instead in an act of unifying violence in the process, also discharging the desire for vengeance, the desire of the blood loss, the desire we've got to do something about this, we can't just let it slide. So everybody goes and turns on the witch or the Jew or the misfit or the weird kid, the kid in a class that has cooties. Remember, if you touch that kid, you've got cooties too and you get ostracized. So even if you don't believe in cooties, you're still gonna keep your distance from that person. Today, it's the unvaccinated who are getting ostracized, who are getting blamed, scapegoated and so forth. The pattern is you have to find somebody who is in but not of society or make them into somebody who is in but out of society to prepare them for sacrifice. So that basic social dynamic has programmed us really deeply with an instinct to orient toward which ways of wind blowing, who's on the in, who's on the outs, who can I associate with? How can I demonstrate my belonging to the good people? You know, in our current age leads to all kinds of virtue signaling and identity politics and it can be manipulated by governments. You know, that's what are these forces that are channeling our psychic energies into conflict. This is one of them. And it makes us very susceptible also to totalitarian control or fascism. All you have to do as a fascist leader is point to the filth and the scum and the whatever bad people there are that are threatening our society. And then everybody falls into lockstep around that or it could be the unvaccinated or it could be the white supremacists or it could be the Antifa. Left and right do the same thing here. Not aligning with either of the sides. And this is one of those filters. People might be listening, okay, which side are you on? Is it okay to believe, to listen to what you say Charles? Because are you one of the good guys or one of the bad guys? Let me figure out if you're one of the good guys or one of the bad guys by decoding the hidden messages and what you were saying. When you said white supremacists, was that with disgust or with a little bit of sarcasm? Which side are you on? Is it okay to be associated with you? That is one of the patterns I'm talking about. And that is almost universal. And if our society is ever going to change for real, we're gonna have to transcend that.