Friday, February 24, 2006
What Makes People Willing to Die or Kill?
"It's a matter of Us and Them" writes David Berreby in his groundbreaking book by that title.
"There are so many ways to sort people. We all do it, all the time. From everyday decisions (whom to invite to dinner?) to life choices (whom to marry?) to the great turning points of history (whom to war against?), we're guided by an ever-present sense, in any situation, of who belongs with whom, and what that belonging means," notes Berreby.
In everyday life and at these upcoming holiday times when we gather with our tribe, this book provides insights about how and why we connect. I think it is more far-reaching in its implications for human behavior and for a culture than *The Tipping Point*.
Notes Berreby's editor, "We can't live without our tribal sense. It tells us who we are and how we should behave.
It frees us from the narrow confines of the self, linking us to others and the past and the future. Some condemn this instinct, as if it were only a source of evil. Others celebrate it, as if loyalty and faith were never misused."
David Berreby brilliantly describes a third alternative: how we can accept and understand our
inescapable tribal mind.
Read more:
"There are so many ways to sort people. We all do it, all the time. From everyday decisions (whom to invite to dinner?) to life choices (whom to marry?) to the great turning points of history (whom to war against?), we're guided by an ever-present sense, in any situation, of who belongs with whom, and what that belonging means," notes Berreby
In everyday life and at these upcoming holiday times when we gather with our tribe, this book provides insights about how and why we connect. I think it is more far-reaching in its implications for human behavior and for a culture than *The Tipping Point*.
Notes Berreby's editor, "We can't live without our tribal sense. It tells us who we are and how we should behave.
It frees us from the narrow confines of the self, linking us to others and the past and the future. Some condemn this instinct, as if it were only a source of evil. Others celebrate it, as if loyalty and faith were never misused."
David Berreby brilliantly describes a third alternative: how we can accept and understand our
inescapable tribal mind.
Read more:
