Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely
Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
N. Russell
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Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
Considering some of the sobering political implications of tribalism might do more to loosen its grip on the tribalists than would more anti-tribalist rebuttals.
Common fear of ‘tribalism’ reveals them to be members of a particular kind of ‘tribe,’ one that perpetuates its power by accusing opponents of tribalism.
Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group