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September 10, 2008

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Mark Dykeman

The only thing that bothers me (and not that much, really) about the concept of the tribe is that it implies that there must be a leader or leaders of some kind. Difficult organizations and different cultures use different leadership models (autocratic to democratic; centralized to decentralized; individual vs. group). If we're going to persist in maintaining the leadership concept, I'd like to see humanity evolve more to the point where members can disagree with leadership but somehow resolve those differences with less waste and hard feelings than most of us appear to be able to do these days. In other words, disagreements shouldn't be perceived as threats to leadership.

This is going a bit off track, I guess, but those are the kinds of thoughts that pop into my mind when the term "tribe" is used.

Sam

"It has to do with why most people want to marry people of their own race or religion and it has to do with the unfortunate human tendency to mistrust or downright dislike people of apparently different tribes."

Although over all I think this blog posting is very interesting, I have issues with this statement. It is true, to some extent, however I think it has less to do with "tribal nature" and more to do with an unwillingness to budge on old ways of doing things. I do not think it is inherent nature, rather a lack of insight into the way the world currently operates. The online social world seems to be a much more open forum, with fewer very small tribes, and more large harmonious communities where many different types of people exist together sharing thoughts, ideas, and wisdom.

Antique Autos

I am pleased to say it is interesting that this blog has a great variety of viewpoints to better understand the situation and that is what most caught my attention and has a great variety of comments

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