0: Ok explain. How does every group call themselves "The Foundational People"? 1: Y'know, Tribalism. It's human nature. Like the thing about how all the Native American tribes were named by the tribe next door, but they all call themselves "We." 0: Explain? Never heard this before. 1: Ok so "Apache" means "enemy." Comanche means "they fight with us." Squaw means "c\*\*t." 0: Woah what? How did that happen? 1: Well the version of the story I heard at school was something like this: _(Narrator: The scene. Two abstract caricatures stand together, a long time ago, discussing the first hard problem of computing: Naming things.)_ > Spanish Guy _(To unknown Indian person)_: Who are those guys over there? > > Indian Person: Those guys? They're the enemies. > > Spanish Guy: What about those people over there? > > Indian Person: We call them the c\*\*ts. > > Spanish Guy: What do you and your friends call yourselves? > > Indian Person: We. > > Spanish Guy: Yes, you and your friends. > > Indian Person: What? > > Spanish Guy: What? > > Indian Person: That's what we call ourselves. > > Spanish Guy: What's what you call yourselves? > > Indian Person: We. > > Spanish Guy: Yes you. > > Indian Person: This is turning into an Abbott and Costello bit. > > Spanish Guy: Who are they? > > Indian Person: I don't know about they. But we call ourselves "We." > > Spanish Guy: You call yourselves "We"? > > Indian Person: Yeah. "We the people." The Foundational People. The Important Ones. The Home Team. The Chosen Ones. All the Gods' Favorite Tribe. We're the people. That's why we call us that. > > Spanish Guy: That's not super helpful, but thanks for the information about the enemies and the c\*\*ts. > > Indian Person: No problem. 0: There's no way that happened. 1: Well not exactly like that, but I think it's a true story. 0: No way. Stories that funny are never true. 1: Here look: ![[we-the-people-1.png]] ![[we-the-people-2.png]] 0: No way. 1: See look, it's exactly like I said. 0: I should've known. History's always weirder than fiction. 1: Speaking of which, we were talking about our history. 0: Right, back to us. 1: Pop the stack? 0: Pop the stack. goto: [[We#Numbers|We]]