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#10 - The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
Is There Something to Be Saying About Tribal Communities?
Tribe by sebastian younger argues that humans have evolved to live in small, or close knit, tribal communities where survival depended on working together. This brought with it a strong sense of community and belonging for the individual. But he says that this is lacking in western society today because there's no direct common threat to our lives like before. The idea that we are inherently tribal has been used to explain racism and violence as well as anxiety and social dislocation. And i don't believe any of that. I think this is just sheer argument by analogy with a fixed conclusion that people are bad,. People are mechanical, people are explained by pre history? You takes all sorts to make the
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