LOL. I've lost one of my most ardent admirers on Facebook. It's gone from 'Wow! You're amazing, brilliant, eloquent & I agree with everything you say' to, following a piece she doesn't like 'I've just realised you're insincere, ill-motivated, know nothing & can't write.'
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This is why I am always wary of people who are highly, gushingly complimentary. Sometimes, that's just their emotional expressiveness, but often they're tribalists who latch onto people whose ideas they like & then feel personally betrayed when they have one they don't.
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Have you done any writing specifically on tribalism? I know you have brushed on it in a few of your articles. One of my favorite books is The Righteous Mind by
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Not specifically. This one probably looks most at tribalism and also draws on Moral Foundations Theory.http://conatusnews.com/care-much-hypocrisy-now/ …
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