The definition employed isn’t particularly convoluted. Bob is pretty much just presenting standard information from group psychology and relating it to how the word ‘tribalism’ is used / abused.
The definition employed isn’t particularly convoluted. Bob is pretty much just presenting standard information from group psychology and relating it to how the word ‘tribalism’ is used / abused.
I am on Team Bob, not Team Harris, but my tribal loyalties (to use the word/metaphor correctly) aren’t so strong that I can’t recognize that Bob’s doubling down on this by trying to expand the invective “tribal” to include a much wider range of cognitive bias (in spite of common usage and countless dictionaries) is misguided.
He’s letting his Sam Harris loathing get the better of him.
The definition employed isn’t particularly convoluted. Bob is pretty much just presenting standard information from group psychology and relating it to how the word ‘tribalism’ is used / abused.
If anyone is abusing the definition (and, oh, it sure seems like someone is), it‘s Bob:
“TRIBAL
Definition of tribal in English:
ADJECTIVE
1. Of or characteristic of a tribe or tribes.
‘tribal people in Malaysia’
1.1 mainly derogatory
Characterized by a tendency to form groups or by strong group loyalty.
‘British industrial operatives remained locked in primitive tribal attitudes’”
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/tribal
I am on Team Bob, not Team Harris, but my tribal loyalties (to use the word/metaphor correctly) aren’t so strong that I can’t recognize that Bob’s doubling down on this by trying to expand the invective “tribal” to include a much wider range of cognitive bias (in spite of common usage and countless dictionaries) is misguided.
He’s letting his Sam Harris loathing get the better of him.