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To: D. Long who wrote (100121)	6/4/2003 3:29:38 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<fallacy of equivocation> That's a term I haven't heard before. Where is the ambiguity? If you mean the word "tribe", I see an essential continuity of ideology, from technologically primitive hunter-gatherer societies, to today's societies. The meme of "tribe" is essentially identical to that of "nation", in my opinion. A member of a tribe, or a nation, places the interests of his tribe/nation over that of Others. He believes, and usually has an elaborate religious/cultural justification for this, that his tribe/nation is inherently better, more truly human, than members of other tribes/nations. Every tribe believes they are the Chosen People. And, yes, I see tribalism as primitive, a dangerous anachronism, in a world of WMD. We need a Second Enlightenment. The first one tamed religion (in Europe, and partly elsewhere). Now, we need to tame nationalism. It'll be a big, long project, since nationalism is such a powerful and dominant ideology today.