A view from the shaded side of the valley. Being in the shadows everything I see is a generalisation. Before the race mixing machine was turned on to high speed this country was 99.99% white. Steady now wait for it. So when the skies were clear everything looked the same but now things are clouded and we are dominated by rainbows things are a little more confusing and unclear.
If you take the brain, its thoughts and processes combined with vastly varying amounts of knowledge add them all up and imagine the sum as a machine. The machines output varies continually according to what raw materials are input.
When ancient Brits lived in isolated communities those who were members all had the same input to their brain machines but the nearest community over the next hill might have completely differing inputs and if the two tribes met the resulting incomprehension of each others looks and the lack of intelligent inputs to the brain machines led to the common denominator of under resourced primitive brain machines and that of course was war.
Take recent history and you see we are still fighting the next tribe for resources but the tribes have grown exponentially in size and each one has its common brain machine inputs, the surrounding environment, traditions and totally useless leaders.
If you look at yourself and your tribe in a mirror and see a blank piece of A4 paper and put it on your desk and do this for years on end. While every now and again someone else puts a tiny dot from a well sharpened pencil point onto your piling up pieces of A4, you may or may not notice and get used to the possibility of a pin prick of pencil lead here and there.
Now if some one comes along with a fat tipped felt tip pen and puts dots all over the place, you check your mirror to see if it needs cleaning or wonder if you have contracted a rash of some sort.
This is simply because it stands out so blindingly obvious as not a clear sheet of A4. Take any tribe of any size and examine it with a magnifying glass and you will soon find the tribe is not one homogenous mix of the same but there are little fires erupting and burning out continuously.
It the same with all tribes, there are variations in the workings of the brain machine everywhere as the inputs cannot be quality controlled to perfect symmetry due to thousands of outside influences.
Again study the building bricks of all the tribes in existence and you soon see they have remarkable similarities and identical pieces too. So much so you could easily transpose bits between tribes.
Of course some pieces are quite different and if swapped with each other can easily upset the balance of a tribe leading to more flare ups of those tiny little fires you viewed earlier.
If the tribes over time learn that the brain machines will run with common inputs from other areas of the lands then they may realise they can trade with each other instead of warring with the advantage of greater rewards than the results of battle.
Obviously everything has to be done in a controlled and fair way to keep everyone happy and at a speed that does not take the brain machine by surprise and overload its capabilities which may vary at random throughout the tribes. Great understanding is needed. Understanding by all takes a lot of education of the individual brain machines. If it isn't monitored continually then flare-ups will occur where mismatches appear or the machines are not programmed to deal with perceived fairness.
So a flare up can be when your immediate neighbour within the tribe has been given preference over you without you realising the facts behind the decisions. Just a little heat nothing to worry about really but when the machines are needed to assemble for special tasks into bigger combined machines then imbalances of the all important inputs can lead to bigger flare ups.
The more obvious the different machine is and can be identified by what it looks like or how it behaves then the easier it is to hang a label on so as to spot when you come across another one or situation that could lead to perceived unfairness of a given situation.
Take any event carried out by two simple or complex brain machines from the simplest task to the most complex task imaginable and you can see that any part of any tribe where interchanged or acting within their home tribe can lead to conflict of thought or action intended or unintended.
So when the society gets more complex and resources for the input of the brain machines gets harder to obtain then one has to learn quickly how to identify each and every component of the life system and hang a label of convenience on it for ones own benefit and if you are social for your friends too.
Sparking off at the sight of a warning label for the wrong reasons due to lack of education of the brain machine can seriously damage its functions and useses to the rest of its tribe. A bit of evolution creeping in with survival of the better educated brain machines.
If the labels are harder to see and determine their warnings then someone might suggest some training in what to look for or those without training will most likely make blanket decisions and tar all sorts of machines with the same wrong label leading to anarchy within the tribe.
If you are unfortunate to paint all existing machines with say four basic colours instead of leaving them the same but with a specification plaques attached denoting the differences then the uneducated machines will easily make big mistakes with the colour codes compared to what they might do if they were educated enough to read the individual specification labels before carrying out tribal tasks to the benefit of all including themselves.
My argument is don't make the mistake of not reading the label when the brain machine opposite you turns out only to be one of the lesser, colour recognition models, awaiting an upgrade. Too much of the same colour will easily confuse it into irrational behaviour, flare-ups are not the answer but upgrading its intelligence levels are and is best achieved by example a little milk and not too much sugar.
