Tribes. We are each and all members of tribes. We claim membership in our tribe, our tribes. We feel comfortable with our tribal kin. Tribes can be of blood kin, of mindset kin, of gender kin, of political kin, of physical action kin, of mutual interest kin, of religious kin, of spiritual kin.
Tribes are by nature suspicious of those outside the tribe. A tribe is enclosed, has a skin to it not easily penetrated by outsiders, those outside the tribe. A tribal alarm goes off when a non-tribal person becomes too close, too familiar.
The tribe is relatively blameless. It is all those outside the tribe who cause all the trouble. Too bad "they" are not like "us."
Our tribal warfare is killing us.
How do we do differently? Tribes are not going away. It is our nature.
The answer is simple. Expand our tribal tent to include everyone.
But, but, but … you say.
We must get our heads out of our buts and just do it.
As you have told us before, George, "We are all members of the Navel Tribe. Plucked from the same vine with the scar to prove it." We have all been together since the beginning... the big beginning. Matter and energy formed and ripped apart and formed again, over and over to reach this rate point of awareness where we see our differences are rendering life itself unsustainable. The time has come to speak of the Tribe to which we all belong. Time to expose the illusion of separation. Thank you for this wake up call.
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