Idea: deplorability index for subcultures. Your tribe's score = 100*(max number of people considered subhuman by some member)/7 billion
I agree the tendency to view parts of humanity as subhuman is a feature of post 1700 modernity if that's what you mean
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I don't know if the tendency to dehumanize was ever not there, but the tech to scale it certainly disrupted the industry around then
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anyhow, sociopath dictators are not in tribes practically by definition so the power thing is only a wrinkle on the index
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what changed at least as much was the idea of "human". Individualism.
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the word for "from our tribe" may be translated as "human being". Classification changed from ethnic to ideological.
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