Lupine Publishers | The Roots of Society-Destroying Tribalism

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Self-serving “our way or the highway” Tribalism is a ruinous societal malady that results in racial discrimination, xenophobia, religious prejudice, gender discrimination and even the distrust some harbor for arcane college professors and their so-called “hidden knowledge.” All know its destructive impact, in the U.S. sought to be offset by voter rights legislation, Title IX strictures, public education and the like. But is it enough to deal piecemeal with the results and ignore their cause? Perhaps if we understood the roots of the sickness, we might better remedy its symptoms. My notion is that Tribalism is innate in human beings, a genetically determined trait of Homo sapiens. In a 2019 essay in the Washington Post Sebastian Junger argued that political polarization is inbred. To me, the impact of such underpinning seems far broader. Tribalism, like any trait shared by disparate societies worldwide having differing cultures, traditions and histories cannot be solely “cultural.” That, then, implicates genetics, a sensible idea given that all humans, regardless of their heritage, are 99.9% genetically identical. And the malady is exceedingly difficult to eradicate. There are countless examples of differing peoples living side-by-side only to be torn apart by a reprise of earlier Tribalistic conflicts – for example, the “ethnic cleansing” that accompanied the 1990s dissolution of Yugoslavia and today, in the U.S. and Europe, fear and rejection of immigrants and the resurgence of White Supremacy.
That such conflicts arise repeatedly shows they are deep seated. The cultures evolved but the underpinnings of the conflict subconsciously festered. The gene-based thesis explains their resurgence time and again.

 

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