Thanks for the comment, Horst. I agree with some of what you say, but not most.

Tribalism exists because there was an evolutionary advantage to it. But that was in ancient times when tribes were separate. Today, the whole world is interconnected rendering tribalism a vestige.

It's still hardwired into our brains. But the common mistake is to think one tribe can rise at the expense of another. That's over. That can't happen anymore. That's the definition of a tribe. It's like bombing the other half of the boat.

We do not at all need others to bond. We bond to survive and thrive. That's plenty of reason.

And yes, belonging is key to all this. That's where we have gone most astray. We no longer produce a natural feeling of belonging and without that, we are desperately miserable and anxious. What we need to do is to find new, modern ways to satisfy this critical, basic, and chronically under-satisfied need.

Philosophy is great, but unless the thinking is evolutionarily based, it is prone to inaccuracies. We evolved. That is robustly clear.

Thanks again.