Lol. Today the defense was intimidated by a silent, unobtrusive Jesse Jackson and begged the court to remove the scary black man. The judge refused, as he said he would.
Awaiting your kindergarten level of misunderstanding and dismissal because you don’t like facts…like before when you said….

” That being said The prosecutor job is to paint the defendant in negative light.
These are not facts.
Again you push false truth.”

Again, it’s the defense being overtly racist and fearful of calm black men who aren’t disruptive one whit….just like his human hunting clients.

Haven't been following it.
That being said The prosecutor job is to paint the defendant in negative light.

These are not facts.
Again you push false truth.

I think there is some level of truth to the proposed phenomena, though like most things the reality is much more complicated than the presentation; there are a lot of factors to consider.

In one instance its pretty well accepted that social norms are a powerful force for humans, and in many ways a positive force for civilized society, or any society for that matter. There would be chaos if everyone was constantly bucking against established norms. Of course that is not to say social norms are always good or reasonable.

Second, there's individuality. There are those who will conform quickly and those who will buck against an established norm longer, or never stop no matter the consequences(anti-socials). The longer someone bucks against a bad norm, in the case of the stairs and bananas, the more likely they are to prove the norm unnecessary.

In the presented example there is only one method of communication among the monkeys, beatings. In such a circumstance I'd give the situation more credibility, however the point of the presentation is to apply it to real world phenomena, where we simply have the ability to question why which puts the whole scenario into loop.

I think the conclusion drawn at the end is a bit of far stretched tripe. While social pressure is a force oppressive governments use, it is not the only method. Yes they get those who don't question them to enforce their will through social pressure, but they will also continually try to maintain the reason behind their social norms as another form of fear. Social pressure will only last so long in the absence of perceived threat. To clarify, I'm not saying it magically goes away, there tends to be a lot of fighting when a norm changes. But it will happen unless there is something that can be pointed to by those who follow the norm and say, SEE WE WERE RIGHT! And again proving one is right using false 'truth' is just another factor in a line too limitless to explain why people fear a threat that isn't true, misrepresented or no longer valid.

Blah, this is one of the worst cases of equivocation (http://roddynobody.com/fallacies.shtml) that I have seen in recent memery. I am talking about the first miniute of the tape now...im writing as im watching this. But to equate what we mean by elite people and elitism is a HUGE equivocation.

When I say, elite fighting force, or elite quake 3 player, I mean someone who is a cut above the rest. He is stonger faster or smarter than a majority of his peers. That is what it means when we all refer to the word elite.

But the idea of elitism is something comletely different. elitism is the idea that someone or more often times, a group of someones are above other people in a sence of power over them. Like the ruling class over the working class; the nature of their elitism is seldom benevolent and more often times is used to describe an explotive relationship. The text book definition is more subtly in these ideas stating more that it is a group of peoples set apart for their intellectual, social, or cultural categories. But implicit in the definition is also its power over the non-elite.

The reason I draw this out is that I think he is making a terrible case of equating the denotative meaning of elitism and not the conotative meaning. The text book meaning is much different than what people mean by elitism in todays lingo, and he is using a logical falacy to bind the two seperate ideas into one so he can show some false truth about the way elitism is really good.

Bad form bad form.

He then goes on to blast people for graduating from a rank 4 facility...because we all know that little peices of paper from prestidgious univercities are the mark of TRUE intellence. This doesn't have to do with his own personal bias im sure, being a graduate of Cornell University in 1978 surely doesn't have anything to do with his view on what it takes to call yourself an intelegent human being. As we all know, Albert Einstein graduated with top honors while also taking his Munich based family bisiness to the top of german economy! O wait, thats not what happend at all...seems like mesuring intelegence might have more to do with people and less to do with peices of paper...who knew!

Sorry for that bit of sarcasm. I just hate it when people get attacked on a personal level because of where they have been or what background education they have. It seems to be ok to be a bigot now adays as long as it is for politics. Sad state of afairs when the people on the sift are more civil and comunicative than the supposed elite.