The Self and The Tribe
I decided to write on this topic because of the current situation in the United States where I live. The world is in the mists of a pandemic that is killing millions. The United States is in political and social turmoil where the idea of liberty has been twisted into an idea of action without responsibility for those actions or consequence. Americans are only looking at what they perceive to be infringement on their personal rights rather than the common good of the tribe. The ancestral pagan Germanic tribes held the tribe, the family, as their most important possession. Without the tribe survival would be nearly impossible. For many people today the concept of the tribe and family could not be more different that that of the Ancestors. In our modern world we send eighteen or so years living in a home with our parents and maybe a sibling or two before venturing out into the world on our own. Obviously, this experience varies from person to person, but most people reaching adulthood (18...