{"id":14034,"date":"2026-04-15T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14034"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:20:49","slug":"tribalism-and-diversity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tribalism-and-diversity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribalism and Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/tribalism-and-diversity?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.\u00a0 First two paragraphs with a Study Guide I&#8217;ve just now appended.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Tribalism is on the rise while classical liberalism is on the wane. Given this fact, does it make sense to admit into one\u2019s country ever more different tribes? A piety oft-intoned by leftists is that diversity is our strength. An Orwellianism, that, if tribal diversity is at issue.* For that would amount to the absurdity that the more domestic strife, the stronger we become. It is plain, after all, that different tribes do not like each other, and do not see themselves in the other. Tribal identification is other-exclusive. There is no comity without commonality.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I am against tribal identification. I realize, however, that I am sawing against the grain of the crooked timber of humanity. People will continue to identify themselves as members of groups. Classically liberal ideals such as toleration are no match for the ingrained tendency to revert to the tribal. So the realist in me says that immigration policy must favor those who are assimilable to our values and principles and must exclude those who aren\u2019t.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You should be able to explain each of these terms:\u00a0 tribalism, classical liberalism, Orwellianism, comity, toleration.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I alluding to with the phrase &#8220;crooked timber of humanity&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest.\u00a0 First two paragraphs with a Study Guide I&#8217;ve just now appended. Tribalism is on the rise while classical liberalism is on the wane. Given this fact, does it make sense to admit into one\u2019s country ever more different tribes? A piety oft-intoned by leftists is that diversity is our strength. An Orwellianism, that, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/tribalism-and-diversity-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tribalism and Diversity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-substack","category-tribalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14035,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034\/revisions\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}