Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.