Perhaps as it would be out of character for me not to quibble ... "belonging is meaningless unless it is somehow circumscribed"? Is the solar system bounded? It's members include even the Oort cloud; it's gravitation and light extend without limit. There's a fade, but circumscription? In an interdisciplinary course on 17th century Britain, what surprised me most was how my own thought and sensibility contains elements from both sides of the English Revolution. I am of many tribes. There are those who should be excluded from society, but as a matter of moral character, not tribal stripes. Or are we to take being honest, empathetic, and true to ones word as tribal values, held only by the tribe of "woke"? Demoting ethical issues to mere tribal quirks -- that's the false move the Trumpists learned from the postmodernists. But ethics is beyond tribe. Good people from even the most diverse cultures recognize each other.
Perhaps as it would be out of character for me not to quibble ... "belonging is meaningless unless it is somehow circumscribed"? Is the solar system bounded? It's members include even the Oort cloud; it's gravitation and light extend without limit. There's a fade, but circumscription? In an interdisciplinary course on 17th century Britain, what surprised me most was how my own thought and sensibility contains elements from both sides of the English Revolution. I am of many tribes. There are those who should be excluded from society, but as a matter of moral character, not tribal stripes. Or are we to take being honest, empathetic, and true to ones word as tribal values, held only by the tribe of "woke"? Demoting ethical issues to mere tribal quirks -- that's the false move the Trumpists learned from the postmodernists. But ethics is beyond tribe. Good people from even the most diverse cultures recognize each other.
Good "post"!