To enhance the ability to fight, humans joined forces by forming packs. In order for packs to survive, they had to have rules such as blind loyalty and obedience together with leadership. A tribal mind became part of needing to survive and that made us the most dangerous species on the planet. This tribal mind has led to ethnocentricity, bigotry, hatred, prejudice, devastation of the ecosystem and war. The need to be part of a tribe is all at a basic primordial level.
Globalization is about getting out of the tribal mind.
We must stop killing each other for the sake of a tribe or an ideology. Buddha was not a Buddhist and Mohammed was not a Muslim. Click to return to Personal-ity. Copyright 2000 Open Book Communications - All Rights Reserved.