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The future of tribalism

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Evolutionary Theory: A Proof of Concept

The idea is that there's this meta tribe that encompasses all these microtribes. And I just don't know that that alleviates some of the contradictions and some of the tensions, right? You're still going to have groups whose identity is rooted in this opposition to other groups. The magic here is identity. This stuff is malleable. And if we're conscious of that, we need to leverage that. Anybody who's done a significant amount of meditation can actually maybe resonate with this idea. So I'm optimistic about our species.

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