You’d want there to be a Tribe, or perhaps two or more Tribes, that aggressively detect and smack down any tribalism that isn’t their own. It needs to be the case that e.g. when some academic field starts splintering into groups that stereotype and despise each other, or when people involved in the decision whether to X stop changing their minds frequently and start forming relatively static ‘camps,’ the main Tribe(s) notice this and squash it somehow.
And/or maybe arrange things so it never happens in the first place.
I wonder if this sorta happens sometimes when there is an Official Religion?
another way to lean really hard into the analogy: you could have a Tribe which has a constitution/laws that dictate what kinds of argument are ok and which aren’t, has a legislative branch that constantly thinks about what kinds of arguments are non truthseeking and should be prohibited, a judicial branch that adjudicates whether particular arguments were truthseeking by the law, and has the monopoly on tribalism in that it is the only entity that can legitimately silence people’s arguments or (akin to exile) demand that someone be ostracized. there would also be foreign relations/military (defending the continued existence of the Tribe against all the other tribes out there, many of which will attempt to destroy the Tribe via very nontruthseeking means)
Continuing the analogy:
You’d want there to be a Tribe, or perhaps two or more Tribes, that aggressively detect and smack down any tribalism that isn’t their own. It needs to be the case that e.g. when some academic field starts splintering into groups that stereotype and despise each other, or when people involved in the decision whether to X stop changing their minds frequently and start forming relatively static ‘camps,’ the main Tribe(s) notice this and squash it somehow.
And/or maybe arrange things so it never happens in the first place.
I wonder if this sorta happens sometimes when there is an Official Religion?
another way to lean really hard into the analogy: you could have a Tribe which has a constitution/laws that dictate what kinds of argument are ok and which aren’t, has a legislative branch that constantly thinks about what kinds of arguments are non truthseeking and should be prohibited, a judicial branch that adjudicates whether particular arguments were truthseeking by the law, and has the monopoly on tribalism in that it is the only entity that can legitimately silence people’s arguments or (akin to exile) demand that someone be ostracized. there would also be foreign relations/military (defending the continued existence of the Tribe against all the other tribes out there, many of which will attempt to destroy the Tribe via very nontruthseeking means)