![]() The zeitgeist and culture adapts to these sentiments in such a way that the society becomes well prepared to meet any external threats. The genes code for a flexibility that allows the psychological sentiments of each person to respond to the level of war and the need for collective action. This psychological mechanism makes people prefer a strong leader and strict discipline in the event of war or other collective danger.ĢThe mechanism explained here is an interplay between genes and culture. Instead, humans have evolved a psychological plasticity that shapes our personalities to fit the environments we live in. 2 Nobody is born belligerent or peaceful, according to this theory. Regality theory seeks to explain such cultural differences as adaptations to the different levels of danger and conflict that societies are exposed to. After all, in an actual war, casualties are to be expected in the service of victory.1It is easy to observe that some cultures are warlike and totalitarian while other cultures are peaceful and tolerant. For such Warriors, winning the economic war with other nations is signaled by growth in the GDP or a bullish stock market-even if more and more people are poor and suffer or die. That is why some Warriors are even against helping the poor or providing health insurance: people die in war, and in civic life, they also die if they do not work hard enough to meet their basic needs. Beyond that, Warriors believe in the way boot camp makes wimps strong enough to be soldiers and, similarly, that people need consequences, or else they will wimp out and not work hard. Collectively, Warriors often share a belief that competition, sports, and military service build such strength. The Warrior values strength and fears being, or seeming to be, a wimp. The Warrior calls us to man or woman up, take stands, work hard, and have a stoic willingness to suffer, if necessary, to get what we want or to defend ourselves or others when we need to do so. In such cases, the enemy is not the other party rather, it is ignorance, and the weapon is truth. However, the Warrior also can fight for values such as “truth, justice, and the American way.” The goal can be to preserve the best of the past or to move toward a vision of the future. In Warrior politics, the goal is to defeat the other party, and, to that end, propaganda may replace truth, leading to the epidemic of fake news. ![]() Primal Warriors also emphasize the right of citizens to carry guns and argue that the way to maintain peace is through the deterrent of maximizing the nuclear stockpile and other weapons of mass destruction. In government, the Warrior generally is hawkish in international affairs, harsh on crime, and cares deeply about protecting national borders-in the extreme, viewing undocumented people essentially as invaders. ![]() When a problem arises, Warriors identify the threats and then seek to eliminate them. The Preamble to the United States Constitution declares that two purposes of our government are to “provide for the common defense” and “promote the general welfare.” The Warrior archetype specializes in the former. The Warrior Paradigm in Government and Public Policy
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