teo_audio, I like your references to "human clan nature". It reminded me of a similar but relevant quote that dealt with this phenomena in the political world, among others. With just a few changes, it can describe all manner of resistance to change:
"My point is the following: Behavioral scientists from another planet would notice immediately the semiotic resemblance between animal submissive behavior on the one hand and human obeisance to religious and civil authority on the other....
And they would conclude, correctly, that in baseline social behavior, not just in anatomy, Homo sapiens has only recently diverged in evolution form nonhuman primate stock."
---E.O. Wilson, Consillience: The Unity of Knowledge.
I'm sorry if I side-tracked this topic but "human clan nature" kind of sums it up.
All the best,
Nonoise
"My point is the following: Behavioral scientists from another planet would notice immediately the semiotic resemblance between animal submissive behavior on the one hand and human obeisance to religious and civil authority on the other....
And they would conclude, correctly, that in baseline social behavior, not just in anatomy, Homo sapiens has only recently diverged in evolution form nonhuman primate stock."
---E.O. Wilson, Consillience: The Unity of Knowledge.
I'm sorry if I side-tracked this topic but "human clan nature" kind of sums it up.
All the best,
Nonoise