It’s perplexing to continue to see the word “tribalism” hurled as a negative and low-brow description of human behavior in mainstream media. Even in the right wing, we see pundits decrying “tribalism” any time they see ethnic groups, ideological groups, or even political parties banding together, seemingly against logical reason, just to support their in-group.

In my view, well, duh. This is human nature. We are by nature tribal animals. Just as canines live in packs, birds gather in flocks, and fish swim in schools, we humans organize in tribes. We evolved not only to live this way but to think this way. We naturally gravitate towards organizing ourselves into a tribe.

Kinship-based tribal organization was the de facto way in which humans structured our civilizations for tens of thousands of years. It is very clear that academia has been captured by an agenda which seeks to promote a patently false notion that ethnic diversity in social organization is normal for humans.

The truth is that anthropology, history, and archaeology all confirm that humans lived in, essentially, extended family networks from our earliest origins until very recent times.

In the case of Europeans, it was the transformation from Pagandom to Christendom which systematically broke down our kinship-based clan structures.*

– Tribalism & Kindred by CE

* Don’t over-react to this point. Christianity is a universalist religion, ergo ‘all are one in Christ.’ This is simply a point of fact not an attack.