The United States is experiencing a dangerous decline in assimilation, leading to a reversion into pre-civilizational tribal affiliations.

“we're starting to revert to a pre-civilizational tribalism I think large swaths of the United States are tribal now”

He observes that intense political tribalism has currently subsumed other forms of division, making party affiliation a primary driver of belief.

“not again not that racial tribalism isn't a thing of course it's always a thing but like political tribalism is the number one right now”

Both supporters of Carmelo Anthony and Shiloh Hendrix are engaging in destructive tribalism and should instead embrace moral clarity.

“What is equivalent is the double standard that the supporters on both sides are applying and they're getting tribal and they're giving money simply because they're engaging in a digital race war and that race war is to the bottom.”

Tribalism is not an instinct for hostility but rather a fundamental set of adaptations for solidarity and culture-sharing that enabled humans to live in large, collaborative groups.

“I think that the tribal instincts are are are instincts that evolution sculpted in order to help us be culture-sharing animals. And that enabled us to live in very large collaborative groups, and a side effect of those tribal instincts is that we sometimes get into conflicts with other groups. But, ”