The Problem With the Group Identity Theory

Our entire societies are predicated on the idea that the sovereign individual is the cornerstone of the state, the family and the state. And to take all those identities into account simultaneously is, in fact, to treat people as if theyre individuals. Any attempt to insist that each of us is no more than an a tar of whatever group identity is to be regarded as paramount at the moment is a reversion to an extraordinarily dangerous form of tribalism. It's not only that it exists in contradistinction to our most fundamental axiomatic assumption, which is that the individual is the fundamental locus of value. It's that it produces a kind of narrative about the structure of the world,