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Originally Posted by sapiens
Finally, what are the "upper echelons of the scientific community"? How are they like a street gang?
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I was getting hungry and wanted to round off my post then.
AFAIKR, the discussion was that the community spent such a long time debating who to accept into their great societies and communities, and where one bad word from a big kahuna could essentially end your career (i've seen that one happen to a friend of my fathers), alongside all the terratorial bias about who does what and when e.t.c
This was then compared to a street gang who went through initiation rituals, if you want to end someones career (i.e. life) you can use a knife instead of words, plus duking it out with other street gangs over who has the rights to what places.
He concluded that there were very few differences in base behaviours, only the way and the enviroment they were expressed in.
I'll see if i can find the book its from, i'm hardly doing it any justice with my description.