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molten_gold who's been watching TheraminTrees, and passed this on: )
TRIBALISM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling
"When we're used to assuming the common-sense truth of our groups ideas, it can be jarring and illuminating to try to explain them from first principals, to move from automatic to manual thinking... Detached manual thinking changes the freedoms we defend. Some people are surprised when an atheist defends religious freedom, when a Jew defends the freedom of expression of Holocaust deniers, when an ex-Muslim defends the freedom to wear hijabs, when a Muslim defends the freedom to draw the author of Islam, Muhammad.
Superficially, they might seem to be working against their own interests. But they're just thinking on a human level instead of a tribal one. detached manual thinking changes our loyalties. When we expand loyalty from tribal to human, concern for truth and justice can be aligned on all levels: individual, group, and human. When loyalty is tribal, the group is misaligned. The region of non-overlap could be labeled hypocrisy, where the group reserves special treatment for itself that it doesn't extend to other groups..."
molten_gold who's been watching TheraminTrees, and passed this on: )TRIBALISM
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling
"When we're used to assuming the common-sense truth of our groups ideas, it can be jarring and illuminating to try to explain them from first principals, to move from automatic to manual thinking... Detached manual thinking changes the freedoms we defend. Some people are surprised when an atheist defends religious freedom, when a Jew defends the freedom of expression of Holocaust deniers, when an ex-Muslim defends the freedom to wear hijabs, when a Muslim defends the freedom to draw the author of Islam, Muhammad.
Superficially, they might seem to be working against their own interests. But they're just thinking on a human level instead of a tribal one. detached manual thinking changes our loyalties. When we expand loyalty from tribal to human, concern for truth and justice can be aligned on all levels: individual, group, and human. When loyalty is tribal, the group is misaligned. The region of non-overlap could be labeled hypocrisy, where the group reserves special treatment for itself that it doesn't extend to other groups..."
