Interesting question. Indeed, we humans have a natural tendency to form groups and this doesn’t appear to be changing with material progress, therefore it is perfectly legitimate looking for the modern equivalent of tribes in our society. But I think a nation is too a large human group to replace the tribe in our natural […]
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Interesting question. Indeed, we humans have a natural tendency to form groups and this doesn’t appear to be changing with material progress, therefore it is perfectly legitimate looking for the modern equivalent of tribes in our society. But I think a nation is too a large human group to replace the tribe in our natural mindset. In a nation there are so many persons and so many differences that you can hardly find a reasonable base of shared values, purposes and objectives. I think that the right group to replace the tribe function in our society is more a medium-size set of neighborhoods, sharing some kind of common pursuit. For instance, a Company, a religious association, a sport club, an interest group, a small political party, etc. Yes, all these are “tribes” in a functional sense. Of course, genetics is not an issue here. The requisite to have a tribal identity is to share common values, not common genes. That used to be in ancient times for the merely practical reason that people didn’t travel as we do now.
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