The Tribe of Liberty

by Jonah Goldberg
National Review Online
September 28, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3254/the-tribe-of-liberty

Excerpt:

We like tribalism for the same reason we like fatty foods: We evolved that way.

Homo sapiens didn't survive long on the African savannas as rugged individualists. Alone, they couldn't scare away the scarier animals, and, for the most part, they couldn't catch and kill the tastier ones. But in groups, humans rose to the top of the food chain thousands of years ago and have been passing down their tribe-loving genes ever since.

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