Human nature and habit seems to dictate that we are “identitarians”; we seem to have a human need to identify with our group, and “group” gets defined ever finer, especially if there isn’t an obvious handy out-group. Russians and Ukrainians have so much in common culturally and historically, but now they are busy killing each other and …
Human nature and habit seems to dictate that we are “identitarians”; we seem to have a human need to identify with our group, and “group” gets defined ever finer, especially if there isn’t an obvious handy out-group. Russians and Ukrainians have so much in common culturally and historically, but now they are busy killing each other and calling each other Nazis. The massacre in Rwanda occurred between two groups with differences that are invisible to outsiders. Same with the two factions of Islam. It’s seems insurmountable, but I guess we have to try, if we value civilization.
Human nature and habit seems to dictate that we are “identitarians”; we seem to have a human need to identify with our group, and “group” gets defined ever finer, especially if there isn’t an obvious handy out-group. Russians and Ukrainians have so much in common culturally and historically, but now they are busy killing each other and calling each other Nazis. The massacre in Rwanda occurred between two groups with differences that are invisible to outsiders. Same with the two factions of Islam. It’s seems insurmountable, but I guess we have to try, if we value civilization.