Dr. Martin Hash Podcast

We don't all have the same values, customs & traditions, so these are the things that define our tribe. Tribalism has its own news, its own entertainment, its own markets, and certainly its own politics. Members only do business and provide opportunities to people of their tribe. The most important value, custom & tradition is to think whatever your tribe thinks, no matter what the facts are. This is the primeval mindset; it probably has an evolutionary component because diversity is divisive.

Tribes, unfortunately, get more & more insular, blaming other tribes for their grievances. In our time, the tribes are split along the winners-losers boundary, which makes them mathematically the same size; and each tribe is sure their side will win, and that truth & justice is on their side, which means a coming conflict of tribes is inevitable. In the case of the Civil War, The North won, and tribalism was held in abeyance for a century and a half, but tribes are back with a vengeance. It's gotten so bad that one tribe now takes the exact opposite stance as the other tribe, no matter the issue. When that happens, there is no negotiated settlement because there is intentionally no common ground; only one tribe can reign supreme, dominating the other tribe so that it's no longer a threat.