{"id":49859,"date":"2015-03-17T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-necessary-limits-of-tribalism.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:10:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:10:39","slug":"the-necessary-limits-of-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-necessary-limits-of-tribalism.html","title":{"rendered":"The necessary limits of tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans group socially. That&#39;s just part of our behavior. The problem with tribalism is not that it happens, but that it happens without our noticing it and that it too easily becomes Us vs Them, even when some of Us are doing some dodgy things.<\/p>\n<p>If being a member of a tribe means defending actions you consider wrong or unjust simply because they were committed by other members of your tribe &#8212; is that a tribe you want to belong to?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Craig Froehle<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tribalism is why we can&#39;t have nice things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/103183570053193175186\/albums\/6127024037799607825\/6127024041946868098'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-6oDh3FjDzKM\/VQeP516FaYI\/AAAAAAABd6w\/Pv7jRDM-Wy0\/notribes.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/RqJWo6jxwmZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans group socially. That&#39;s just part of our behavior. The problem with tribalism is not that it happens, but that it happens without our noticing it and that it too easily becomes Us vs Them, even when some of Us are doing some dodgy things. If being a member of a tribe means defending actions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-necessary-limits-of-tribalism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The necessary limits of tribalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,740,378,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-intolerance-persecution","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/notribes.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27834,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/political-tribalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":49859,"position":0},"title":"Political tribalism","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-May-12 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"A sign of maturity is being able to give credit where credit is due. Ideological extremists and and game-players, on the other hand, treat every case as a \"win\" or \"loss.\" There was certainly some of this from the Left when Dubya was in office, and election season always brings\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40920,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/it-is-hard-to-avoid-the-tribalism-this-week.html","url_meta":{"origin":49859,"position":1},"title":"It is hard to avoid the tribalism this week","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jan-14 9:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So ... um ... go Broncos. \u00a0There, I said it.(And, yes, I'll be at an actual SUPERBOWL PARTY on Sunday. So there.)Reshared post from +Denver Weather ExaminerNow this is cool! \u00a0The Empire State Building lit up in #Denver\u00a0#Broncos orange and blue tonight!\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42436,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/tribalism-and-the-bilateralism-of-rights.html","url_meta":{"origin":49859,"position":2},"title":"Tribalism and the bilateralism of\u00a0rights","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Jun-14 2:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are times I have to sadly assume that the urge for Us vs Them is somehow riveted into our genetic code, right next to the part where our sex hormones turn off our brains and the part where we can't societally plan for anything further out than five years.How\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12210,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/obligatory_world_series_p.html","url_meta":{"origin":49859,"position":3},"title":"Obligatory World Series post","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-07 6:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who is less sports-interested than I am -- especially regarding baseball.\u00a0 Yes, I will sometimes watch a sporting event on TV\u00a0 ......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fourth Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/rockies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":50273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/us-them-and-redefinitions-of-who-is-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":49859,"position":4},"title":"Us, Them, and Redefinitions of Who Is Us","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-May-15 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not having served in the Marines, I cannot vouch for this article. 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