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Rational Tribalists in ER raise your hand!

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Actually, according to behavioral economics, there is little difference between rational and irrational behavior. In the case of tribalism, the real problem is not its epistemic or moral flaws. Epistemic is how e make distinctions and know and our morality is simply our code of behavior. Tribalism is therefore a classification, a grouping system which is fundamental to knowing anything. There is no cognition without categorization of reality.

The problem with tribalism is when it becomes the organizing principle of civil society and political systems in a modern society. The polarizing problem of tribalism arises not because there are tribes in a given society but because the political, economic, social, cultural and military (security) interests of a nation, its classes, groups and civil societies are organized on the bases of tribal division or tribal categories.

So a given tribalist thinker is not that he is a non-critical thinker; he is simply critical relative to his tribal selection. To think critically simply means to select one set of choices from the other based on a certain criterion- in this case his/her own tribal beliefs, knowledge and interest. On the other hand, those who advocate the philosophy of individual liberty and civic culture are critical relative to individuality and make their choices on such criteria as liberties and rights of the person, freedom and other democratic principles.

In fact, the video talks at great length about epistemology and morality (knowledge and behavior) where as the emotional (motivational) issues are more problematic in the case of tribal politics and ethnocracy.