I would have to be excluded from the “we” as described above. I very definitely see emotional and power structure and process within all social relationships and entities. I also would dismiss the idea that truth matters more than position or power; I would see power as the goal and “truth” and means as the particular interpretations and behaviors selected, sometimes consciously but more frequently so automatic as to be unconscious, in accordance with invisible operating systems with unwritten, unacknowledged rules that are nevertheless clearly understood by all within that system. I have gone so far as to consider that all social transactions could possibly be expressed mathematically.

I would like some citation here–I believe in this instance you are confusing Lewis with another notable Anglo-Catholic conservative genius, T. S. Eliot, who made such a remark (for which the Commentary crowd never forgave him) in the ’30′s.

“Brass meets gold.” This hits the nail on the head.

Of course, other races see differently too. With blacks, they tend to see everything much more materialistically. they love signs of wealth and status above all. They will get into deadly conflicts over things we would not think of doing so over.

One of the most interesting things about different ethnic groups is how differently they see or interpret social situations or even facial expressions — as recent research shows oriental people do. I think that if you accumulate enough research in this regard, and collect what is out there into a whole, we should see reflections of each groups dominant pattern of social and philosophical coping with the world. Each little difference in view, the shape of the bell curve — ours being more spread out, etc. alone does not tell us that much but combined with other differences can tell us a lot more.

I think this movie, and the review, points up the importance of seeing the differences in patterns between peoples that indicate our “invisible phenotype” which stretches through time and is a sort of racial personality which gives rise to many different aspects of our particular cultures.

They could have ended it with that line and then rolled the credits.

I have to say though, that I saw some of this movie with a lady friend while on a long distance bus ride. We couldn’t get through the whole thing because for me it was upsetting and for her it was just boring.
When I explained to her why it was upsetting she could see my point. I then asked her what she thought, and she said, “I thought the point of the movie was to make the girl look like an obnoxious idiot. He was polite and she was annoying.”

I wanted to hug her.

The point is, most people don’t look into things the way we do and it’s sometimes refreshing to hear their reactions. They might not be able to analyze it from the perspective of Jewish mind-control, etc. but their, as Hemingway may have put it, “Built-in shit detector” works just fine. Their intuition tells them “I am being preached at, and I don’t like it.”

When I meet people like that they seem to appreciate the analysis, and I am grateful for their gut response. This could very well be the model for how we communicate to, and with, a larger group.