Epistemic status: politics, known mindkiller; not very serious or considered.
People seem to have a God-shaped hole in their psyche: just as people banded around religious tribal affiliations, they now, in the contemporary West, band together around political tribal affiliations. Intertribal conflict can be, at its worst, violent, on top of mindkilling. Religious persecution in the UK was one of the instigating causes of British settlers migrating to the American colonies; religious conflict in Europe generally was severe.
In the US, the 1st Amendment legally protects freedom of religion from the state. This can be modeled as a response to severe intratribal conflict; bake rules into your new state that forgo the benefits of persecuting your outgroup when you’re in power, in exchange for some guarantee of not being persecuted yourself when some other tribe is in power. An extension of the spirit of the 1st Amendment to contemporary tribal conflicts would, then, protect “political-tribal freedom” from the state.
A full generalization of the Amendment would protect the “freedom of tribal affiliation and expression” from the state. For this to work, people would also have to have interpersonal best practices that mostly tolerate outgroup membership in most areas of private life, too.
Epistemic status: politics, known mindkiller; not very serious or considered.
People seem to have a God-shaped hole in their psyche: just as people banded around religious tribal affiliations, they now, in the contemporary West, band together around political tribal affiliations. Intertribal conflict can be, at its worst, violent, on top of mindkilling. Religious persecution in the UK was one of the instigating causes of British settlers migrating to the American colonies; religious conflict in Europe generally was severe.
In the US, the 1st Amendment legally protects freedom of religion from the state. This can be modeled as a response to severe intratribal conflict; bake rules into your new state that forgo the benefits of persecuting your outgroup when you’re in power, in exchange for some guarantee of not being persecuted yourself when some other tribe is in power. An extension of the spirit of the 1st Amendment to contemporary tribal conflicts would, then, protect “political-tribal freedom” from the state.
A full generalization of the Amendment would protect the “freedom of tribal affiliation and expression” from the state. For this to work, people would also have to have interpersonal best practices that mostly tolerate outgroup membership in most areas of private life, too.