Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for friendly, thinky, attractive people, deep thinkers, and hopefully readers as well.

Because I have a book out it's called Tribalism is dumb where it came from

why it got so bad and what to do about it and I have been working on this book for about seven years now,

seven or eight years, I think, trying to answer one very big question,

why did everybody go crazy in politics?

What happened?

Why did everybody get mean?

Specifically, why did people become so tribal about politics?

I haven't been alive that long, but it does seem to have gotten appreciably worse within my lifetime.

Why? So my new book, Tribalism is dumb is a kind of unified string theory of where all this partisanship came from. It's out right now,

it's out this week. You can find it on Amazon.com or you can go to mighty heaten dot com slash books and it's a lot of

anthropology and sociology and evolutionary history but crucially it has a lot of jokes it's a very

glib readable book about an otherwise serious topic and it consists of three parts. In part one I get into cavemen,

evolution and prehistory to explain why we're inherently wired, not just to group up and defend our tribes, but to

proactively go out and look for enemy tribes to fight. That's in us. It's bred

into us. And I talk about that and I make the case for why that is in part one. In part two, we ask, okay, so what changed?

If tribalism is innate to the human experience,

if we are very groupish and we want to support our tribe

and go fight another tribe, well, what altered in recent history to make things worse?

I try to tackle the events that were watershed moments that have led to where we are now.

And finally, in part three, what do we do about it?

On a macro level as a society, how do we turn the temperature down?

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