I Have a Question - Episode Two (week 5) - Philosophy as a Tool of Dominance

Our hosts, Chris Hayes and Jeet Heer will discuss the types of dominance that have attempted to reach back into antiquity to validate their claims of superiority of one type or another.

Declaring physical dominance as justification for dominance - seen in attempts to control women, non-dominant populations - the “warrior” ethos, gamers, Sparta, the view of supreme physical superiority and who are attracted to this aspect. The crudest form of dominance

Intellectual racism - we are superior intellectually, in both its crudest form and its current form - Athens - who are attracted to this aspect and the difference in the two groups and how they seek dominance. When those who seek domination wouldn't fit into the first category themselves, they bring out this category instead.

The "God has ordained that our group is superior" angle - usually this group declares themselves morally superior to other groups and must restrict all other groups because those groups can not control their own morally flawed sinful impulses - Religious Legitimization of a position of dominance.

Ethno -Nationalist - This group will declare that only one peoples can peacefully exist within a nation and all others must be exterminated or only non-dominant populations can be allowed if useable and restricted in a rigid social hierarchy which restricts and maintains each group within its own level, never to change, never to contaminate the pure, superior race - seen in blood and soil framing

Roman Empire - rarely do ethno-nationalists stay within their own established borders - the warrior ethos tends to always flow into militarism - our army is stronger than anyone else's, so that gives us the right to dictate to other peoples and nations outside our borders, which leads to a forever justification for expansion - expand or die.

Plantation owner mentality - he who can gather the most resources through what ever means possible has the right to be supreme over everyone else - what some view as capitalism rationale, though every political entity, regardless of its economic system follows this same rationale - the few at the top get to own all of the benefits of resources and privileges attached.