Comments by "Deus Ex Homeboy" (@DeusExHomeboy) on "A Conversation with Graeme Wood (Episode #216)" video.
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@amicklich6729 I don't prefer to shift the blame on technology, like phones. It's the people who must self-regulate and not externalize their behavioral origins, in order to avoid putting in work to become less attached to what their phone gives them. Just how a smoker can't blame the cigarettes, but can do something about their choices. Same goes for any other dependency or addiction. Including technology, political ideology, etc.
To be honest, tribalism is a vestigial emotion in a world where tribal isolation is largely non-existent. Therefore, a tribe focused impulse is unnecessary. And most ingroups that exist today are a pseudo tribe. Only existing to stroke and satiate the tribal bone in those humans.
Tribalism was good when humans couldn't reason much. It became a good reason to fight and die for something. Now the world is different. You can fight and die for thousands of causes, which are not inherently even related to pseudo tribalism. We have reasons. And a better understanding of outcomes. Unlike our helpless ancestors who had nothing but the tribes they lived within.
Which is why most people can still feel it strongly. Because on an evolutionary timescale, only minutes have passed since the first humans started emerging out of natural processes.
Well, of course, along with a bunch of other impulses, that's why a lot can't help but kill and rape. It's the vestigial nature taking its natural time to become absolutely irrelevant and eventually be discarded by our specie.
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