I’m old enough to remember a period during which Americans weren’t belligerent idiots. The cause of our decline is tribalism. Western tribalism is a sort of junk-food version, dumber and more superficial than what you find in so-called backward regions of the world. The blindness of tribalism I knew this was phony the second I…
The self-slaughter of tribalism
July 15, 2014
Every day I read comments by atheists or “secular humanists” ridiculing the religious. And yet those who belittle the notion of “an invisible, bearded old man in the sky” tend to have a fanatically religious reverence for government. Yes, people come to my door trying to convert me to their religion. But at least they…