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“Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narcissistic vindication of their ego and will. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, ergo questions all and thus, learns and grows; progression. The weak and narrow mind makes its beliefs sacrosanct; fearful of challenge, their creed becomes unalterable, defended with violence. Political extremists, much like religious zealots, are the latter. They destroy what they cannot convert. They annihilate those they cannot control, or force to conform. They have found no peace in life, no love, and so promote war and division, as emotional cripples – inflicting their own pain and misery and malignant stupidity on the world. Their language binds people together, but only by stirring the darkest excesses of the soul; language of hate, and intolerance, fear and conspiracy, and the need for vengeance. In war-scarred Europe, these cripples direct mass-psychology, and would make the world in their own likeness; mutilated by violence and tribalism and hate.”
Daniel S. Fletcher
“For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.”
George A. Romero“The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.”
Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception”
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined“What are the final lessons learned? I came to the conclusion that the most powerful human motive by far is the striving for attachment to loved ones in perpetuity. Humans will do anything for this, including blowing themselves (and others) to pieces. I learned that tribalism is universal. It may start with the attachment to another (typically, the mother and disinterest in those who are not her), and it may be furthered by the division of in-group as those we recognize and out-group as the rest, but our capacity for symbolism established in- and outgroups in us all, and we view their actions completely differently. We need, if we are to survive, a sense both of humanity as a tribe and of humanity’s potential for radical violence. If we delude ourselves that we are the civilized entity we appear to be on the surface, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, only with more powerful and devastating weapons.”
Donald G. Dutton, The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence: Why "Normal" People Come to Commit Atrocities“I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.”
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose“You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.”
Alexander Haig“The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy”
R. Buckminster Fuller“I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.”
E. O. Wilson“In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.”
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