#126 - On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp

As with propaganda, Todd's thoughts on tribalism have evolved in the last 9-years. It's a trait, not a defect. Evolution burrowed tribalism deep into the human psyche for a reason and it's going nowhere. That makes it a potent force that needs to be more clearly understood. 

Segment 1: 

• Sebastian Junger and his book Tribe
• Tribalism and social evolution
• The doe eyed folly of "anti-tribalism" splinter factions
• Unity Via Division, huh? Go home, you're drunk
• The Fantastical Cult of Utopian Diversity: do diverse super societies have a shelf life?
• Vichy Whites: Wokentology's moneyed bourgeois assuming they'll be judged as "one of the good ones" 
• Careful of those reprisals

Segment 2 (30:00)

• Tribalism offers the protection of the herd: physical, ideological, even rhetorical
• The accidental consequences of actually being a lone independent thinking chimp
• Tribal politics, agitation and integration propaganda, and "revolution"
• Collectivism vs Individualism: The invasive species attacking the foundational and cohesive myth
• Revolutionary destabilization is the goal
• Extremist Roulette: the scapegoated majority choosing their own tribe's self-interest

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