* Concentric loyalties run along the lines of “me against my family, my family against the tribe, my tribe against the world.” Your loyalty in such a world view is firmly centered in the most immediate and local context and the further out someone or some entity is, the less claim it has upon your blood, treasure or political concern. This describes the conservative position.
leapfrogging loyalties characterize the SJW worldview. By definition in this schema, the further out a person or nation is physically or politically from me, the more sacred it is. For a white SJW living in Chicago, it’s axiomatic to care more about, for example, third world immigrants in far flung Djibouti than to care about a like-skinned neighbor right next door who might well be unemployed and malnourished. The SJW is blind to the people around him because compassion for people who are nearby and familiar is simply too boring to be thought of; his SJW concern leapfrogs all whites, especially poor whites (who can’t seem to keep up with the importance of stylish clothes or virtue signalling) and skips across the ocean to the presumably oppressed blacks and browns of other continents.
Leapfroggers all tend to inhabit majority-white gated communities.
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Southerners had at one time a reputation for being lanky. The stereotypical redneck was lanky. Nobody would have accused those mesomorphs of being liberals. Think also of the dour, lanky, clannish and/or Calvinist exclusivist Scotsman. Of course, Celts also have a reputation of being impractical dreamers, although that is more of an Irish stereotype.
That said, the stocky no-nonsense character is an enduring figure in literature Also shows up in cartoons. Is this an example of writers unconsciously replicating what they were exposed to or an observation of human nature? They would probably be horrified to realize that such characterizations actually reinforce the notion that race, or geographically and genetically defined populations if one is squeamish, have real implications for personality, etc.
Has anyone ever seen a work in which a short, stocky figure is a poetic dreamer or otherwise impractical, while his lanky friend is an exuberant and/or earthy realist? I can only think of George R.R. Martin’s Quentyn Martell. I suspect Martin is channeling himself in Quentyn, as he also channels himself in Tyrion.
In 19th-century anthropology, the sturdy Alpinoid fit Steve’s ectomorph description. But back then “scientists” all made stuff up to justify colonial exploitation and none of their insights equal the musings of our learned humanities majors, i.e. our clergy.
* I need to set up interviews with casting directors. They must have the most accurate perceptions of what kinds of faces and bodies audiences will find plausible in different kinds of roles.
