Readings and Comments, January-September 2017
TRIBALISM, A COMPUTER SIMULATION September 14, 2017 http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction?utm_source=Nautilus&utm_campaign=f008ab4b3f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dc96ec7a9d-f008ab4b3f-56602757 I'm not sure I understand this article's title and if the question it poses is answered in the narrative. Your thoughts? "On this line between beastly machines and angelic rationality, where do we find the human species? If we humans are super-rational, or at least on our way there, there is reason to be optimistic. ... Our cultures are evolving today, but not, it seems, toward any harmony. The chaos of the 21st century makes our simulations feel immediately familiar. ... As intellectuals at both political extremes increasingly see the possibility of a rational political order as a fantasy, Shibboleths take up their role in defining racial, national, and religious boundaries and appear once again to ...