The brain is a relic of humanity's tribal past, naturally caricaturing life into dualistic narratives, whether rich v poor, West v Islam, left v right. Refuse to limit your thinking to such fairy tales, recognize that reality is greater than 2 sides, and all will make more sense.
We don't actually live in tribes, though. We live on one level in families and on another level as part of societies. We may act tribally, but we don't live tribally.
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Um.... If we act tribally we live tribally. Can't see a real difference there. That "society" thing is quite, quite thin.
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The way humans once lived is closer to the way chimpanzees now live. That's the kind of tribalism I'm talking about. We don't live like like that any more - we live alongside millions of other people in vast metropolises, nothing like a community of a hundred or so in a jungle.
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