{"id":2267,"date":"2021-12-31T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/victor-davis-hanson-on-tribalism-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:27:32","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-tribalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/victor-davis-hanson-on-tribalism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning to upload a  batch of quotations from Chapter Three, Tribes<\/em>, in Victor Davis Hanson's latest, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America<\/em>, Basic Books, 2021.  But my effort was stymied when the book was recalled. For now, there is this:<\/span><\/p>\n

The reversion to tribalism<\/em> that we are now seeing all around us may be inevitable. Collectively, we appear to be 'defaulting' to tribalism. Hanson:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tribalism is by far the most ancient, natural, insidious, and stronger idea than nonracial citizenship. It is the default state of mankind. Its pedigree dates back to prehistory, and its vestiges were worrisome to later civilized states. (100)<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Tribalism is now swiftly becoming a synonym for multiculturalism. It accepts that the strongest human affinities in a society, past and future, must arise from similar and natural racial, ethnic, religious, or clannish ties of blood among like groups. These pre-state bonds properly should supersede the citizen's collective and constructed political and social allegiance  to the nation-state. (100-101)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hanson rightly distinguishes American multi-racialism<\/em> with its commitment to a common culture from multi-culturalism<\/em> and notes their opposition to each other.  A multi-racial society could work but only with a shared culture.  Without the latter, the nation will "unwind" and "revert to pre-state status," issuing in a Hobbesian bellum omnium contra omnes<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is what we are in for, I fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not long ago, tribalism was seen to be backward, reactionary and pre-civilizational, as "innately toxic" and "anathema to any pluralistic democratic society." (101) But no longer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was planning to upload a  batch of quotations from Chapter Three, Tribes, in Victor Davis Hanson's latest, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America, Basic Books, 2021.  But my effort was stymied when the book was recalled. For now, there is this: The reversion to tribalism … Continue reading “Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-politics-and-tribalism","category-tribalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}