Most of us aren't naturally very tribal. I know I wasn't. I never had a tribe of any sort growing up, and people who did seemed irrational.
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Fairness was always important to me, and any tribalism seemed entirely unfair. Why wouldn't you treat everyone equally?
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In high school, I always sat with the Asians, maybe because they didn't have much of a tribe at my school either.
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Eventually it became clear to me that others were operating with different conceptions of fairness,and I couldn't make others be non-tribal.
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If everyone else is going to act tribal, then you're just going to get fucked unless you also tribe-up.
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It might simply be impossible for certain peoples to "tribe-up".
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Replying to @crab_aesthetics @HbdNrx
The precise opposite seems more likely to me.
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Replying to @crab_aesthetics @HbdNrx
Tribalists are primitives. The only thing that protects them is the moral psychosis of their de-tribalized enemies. ...
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... Dealing with that moral psychosis, admittedly, isn't much easier that re-tribalization. The potential rewards, though, are greater. ...
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... If people can't manage it, their machines will.
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