Word: tribalized
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...South America for more than 2,000 years. The visions they induce are socially shared and, it seems, consistent with one another. That is the crucial difference. A Huichol Indian, for instance, goes to the peyote ceremony knowing that his encounter with the sacred cactus will confirm his tribal consciousness, its myths and traditional units of experience...
...invasion threatened to touch off a bloodbath in Uganda. It could not only engulf the Asians, who have lived in fear since Amin ordered 50,000 of their number holding British citizenship to leave, but could also revive tribal warfare and turn into a protracted border war with Tanzania as well...
...Fiedler was entertaining, he was, of course being foolish First. Tolstoy's faith in art was based in Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity...
Short of some magical political solution to today's more intractable tribal conflicts, the best hope is for wider psychological understanding of how to deal with the fanatics who insist upon pursuing those conflicts all over the civilized world. Until then, governments will be fumbling through other Munichs-and wondering sorrowfully afterwards how they all happened. · Timothy James
...groups recognize that unity is essential for victory, but they have yet to agree on a way to attain the necessary cohesion. And the Portuguese aren't about to help out. They play off one group against the others, much as they fomented tribal wars in the previous five centuries of their involvement in Angola...