There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. – Robert Benchley There are a zillion ways to classify people, and one of the most important is by mental elasticity. Most of us like to know what’s what. If […]
Archives for March 2017
Tribalism – shielding ourselves from an inconvenient world
This is so common these days. People use labels as a form of angry dismissal. ‘You remainers, liberals, leftists, feminists…’ It’s taking refuge in a tribe, using it as a structure to make sense of a world that stretches and inflames us. Tribes can be good, but not when they’re at war with the Other. […]