Observe that today’s resurgence of tribalism is not a product of the lower
classes—of the poor, the helpless, the ignorant—but of the intellectuals, the
college-educated “elitists” (which is a purely tribalistic term). Observe the
proliferation of grotesque herds or gangs—hippies, yippies, beatniks,
peaceniks, Women’s Libs, Gay Libs, Jesus Freaks, Earth Children—which are not
tribes, but shifting aggregates of people desperately seeking tribal
“protection.”
The common denominator of all such gangs is the belief in motion (mass
demonstrations), not action—in chanting, not arguing—in demanding, not
achieving—in feeling, not thinking—in denouncing “outsiders,” not in pursuing
values—in focusing only on the “now,” the “today” without a “tomorrow”—in
seeking to return to “nature,” to “the earth,” to the mud, to physical labor,
i.e., to all the things which a perceptual mentality is able to handle. You
don’t see advocates of reason and science clogging a street in the belief that
using their bodies to stop traffic, will solve any problem.