(TRIBE) NOT IDEOLOGY (GOVERNMENT) IS MOVING THE WORLD. Or let me put it this way

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-identity-not-ideology-is-moving-the-world/2014/07/03/631ff338-02d7-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.htmlIDENTITY (TRIBE) NOT IDEOLOGY (GOVERNMENT) IS MOVING THE WORLD.

Or let me put it this way first:

Tribalism is more important than ideology, since we’ve all adopted some form of consumer capitalism.

Or let me put it this way second:

The nonsense that america is an ‘idea’ (an ideology) is dead, and likewise, america’s tribes are asserting themselves in reaction to the death of ideology.

A friend reminded me tonight that The Big Sort continues, and that americans are moving into culturally and tribally oriented areas. Meanwhile, we are also reproducing into castes on a scale that has never been possible before.

The old political order of the nation state cum-heterogeneous empire, cannot survive this change. so we will either see more empire (tyranny) or more tribalism (city states). I prefer the latter, obviously.