This piece is attached to a particularly good example of that set of misleading and erroneous kind of thinking. The people who have that perspective completely and very intentionally both fight and ignore the extremely important role that tribes play in all of those settings - and they give us journalism and policy pronouncements about those settings that can be highly misleading and have very little relevance for what is actually happening to the people in those situations and settings.
They clearly say, with great regularity, that the people in each conflicted setting and situation should transfer their loyalty to their local nation instead of to their tribe. With great consistency, they tend to say that the right direction and the right strategy for all of those settings should be to rise as quickly as possible above “Sectarianism” and above tribal thinking and they often say that the local people should return to thinking of nations and nation states as being our natural and most appropriate context for structuring, organizing and managing our future. They generally have the perspective in those articles that tribal issues lower the level of interactions in a nation to what they often label - in a tone of mild derision for the spoken reporting - “Sectarianism.” The articles that do name tribes tend to demean and criticize both their existence and their role. Pundits and journalists will describe what are clearly tribal conflicts that have tribes killing people from other tribes and will manage to focus significant amounts of discussion and reporting on those events and settings without ever mentioning the names of the tribes or noting in any way that the tribes exist and that those tribes are directly and highly relevant to the process and setting. One of the more interesting realities of public policy discussion and debate today is how hard very intelligent people will work to deny that tribes and tribal conflict are shaping our world and our future. Reviews, Paradigms & Beliefs Tribal Warfare Shapes our World and Very Intelligent People do Very Creative Things to Deny that is True
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