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RE: The Non-Agression Principle // Part 3

in #peaceacademy7 years ago

I think we’ve evolved to dehumanize people’s outside of our “tribe”. Before agriculture , centralization of power and large city state societies, any outsiders met could potentially cause serious harm if trusted. Those tribes and peoples who tended to have empathy made themselves extremely volnerable to other tribes with lower ethics and geared toward an extraction based “economy.” So we have been culled to fear the outsider. The state has played on this fear for thousands of years and have used it like you say to devensitize us and train us to hate and dehumanize everyone outside of our “tribe.”

I think it’s time we evolve and expand our definition of tribe. We all belong to one global tribe, and we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be manipulated to wage war against eachother. The fear needs to stop. Thank you for your good work in promoting peace ✊🏼

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I'm in favor of local tribes as opposed to becoming a person of no tribe of no identity and no personality and so on and so forth. I'm for global tribes to some extent, online, and maybe in some forms offline. But I'm interested in local focus first. Your country first. Your community first. Your family first. Your culture and traditions first, maybe, to some extent.

I'm actually working on a few posts exploring the concept of decentralized, self governing micro communities ,"tribes", that trade and collaborate peacefully with other "tribes." What I meant by we are part of a global tribe is that we need to see everyone as human as we see the people of our own local tribe. Not that our individual egos and culture become homogenized and dissolved in a new global nation. Think globally act locally.

Agreed. Good points. Steemit is a good example of this.