Tag: Tribalism

• Imagine Hating “The Other” So Much You’d Infect Your Own Children To Prove How Much You Hate

  You can’t blame humans for being tribal. We’re social creatures. Tribalism is a survival technique hardwired into our genome. We will more likely thrive if those around us thrive. Or because those around us are thriving. More importantly — from a purely animal point of view — our genome wants our children to thrive in […]

  A L Katz

  July 30, 2021

  Barack Obama, Corruption, Election 2016, Election 2020, Healthcare, Magical Thinking, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  Anti-vaxxers, Anti-Voting, Gerrymandering, Kaiser Soze, Mitch McConnell, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Tribalism, Vaccine Denial, Voter Suppression

• How To Beat Tribalism? Be Even MORE “Tribal”

  Humans are tribal by nature; it’s a survival instinct. Since reproduction is one of our key “primal directives”, our genome has built into it behaviors that give our personal DNA every chance to create a next version of “us”. After our own precious ass, our family’s ass comes next in the pecking order. Then our […]

  A L Katz

  April 18, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Coronavirus, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Music & Culture, Racism, Slavery

  America's Great Seal, E Pluribus Unum, Fascists, French Enlightenment, Jews Will Not Replace Us, Originalism, Out Of Many One, Tribalism, White Grievance, White Privilege, White Supremacy

• Dear RW-ers: No, Freedom Is NOT Free; It Comes With Responsibilities

  Listening to most RW-ers defend their ideals is starting to sound like a ten year old bully defending himself. “You’re not the boss of me” is what “freedom” sounds like in his ears. That might work as freedom if you live alone on an island. Put one other person there and “you’re not the boss […]

  A L Katz

  January 15, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Slavery, Taxes, Treason, Trump

  American Exceptionalism, Civic Education, Free Labor, Freedom in a free society, Freedom isn't free, Politics, Slavery, Taxes, Tribalism, Voting Rights, Winston Churchill, You're not the boss of me

• Human Beings Can’t Help Being Tribal; The Trick Is To See As Many Other Humans As Possible As “Your Tribe”

  I’m an Angeleno. As crazy-making as living in LA can make you, I love living here and I feel a very real kinship with everyone else who loves living here. Hell — I feel a kinship for those who DON’T love living here. I get it. I understand them and feel those same tugs. If […]

  A L Katz

  December 15, 2019

  Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Trump

  American tribalism, Angelenos, California Culture, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Tribalism, Vassar College

• Our Problem Isn’t That Humans Are “Tribal”, It’s That Humans Aren’t “Tribal ” Enough…

  The English Premiership Football season started today. My side — I’m a Tottenham Hotspur fan (through marriage) going back 30 years — won! Though they played a dull first half, in the second half, the Spurs looked more Spurs-like. They pressed, they out-hustled, they attacked relentlessly. Our new guy (Ndombele) was great and Harry Kane […]

  A L Katz

  August 10, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Earworms Worth Having, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, The Branding Age, Uncategorized

  American tribalism, London, Los Angeles, Middle School, Socialization, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, Tribalism, Tribes, White Supremacists

• It Sucks Being Hated. It Sucks More When The Reason You’re Hated Is Entirely Based On Fiction

  It sucks when the thing at the end of “I hate you because…” is bullshit. I’m a yid. A kike. A sheeny. I grew up part of a hated community. As a kid, you ask the obvious question — “But WHY do they hate me (never mind us)?” The answer you get back isn’t satisfying […]

  A L Katz

  April 29, 2019

  Atheism, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, People Too Stupid For Christianity

  Antisemitism, bigotry, Christian Mythology, Christianity, Do Unto Others, Holocaust, Jesus, Magical Thinking, Paul, Racism, The Jesus Seminar, The Other Bible, Tribalism

• What Tribalism IS & ISN’T

  Our illustrious, observant MSM points out a lot these days how TRIBAL we’ve all become (and how ‘it’s both sides’ fault that we HAVE become so tribal). As I’m fond of saying on these pages here, if you start from a place of BULLSHIT, you will only ever see BULLSHIT in front of you.  And […]

  A L Katz

  July 6, 2018

  False Patriotism, Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Uncategorized

  ‘Both sides do it’, American Exceptionalism, Bullshit, Diversity, Main Stream Media, MSM, Racism, Republican corruption, Tribalism