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It's in our nature to move towards tribalism, we've been doing it for millennia even if you think "Oh we can do better"... look at the console wars, look at Marvel vs DC.. look at Star Wars vs Star Trek. We'll invent our own dichotomies to pick sides over. Edward or Jacob, Twilight or 50 shades of grade. Harry Potter or Not Harry Potter.
I wish I could say we could be above that... but we can't.
Especially not when advertising, social media, entertainment industry, politicians use the tribalism tendency to benefit their bottom line.
I'm reminded of the "I love The Beatles" and "I hate The Beatles" stickers - both sold by the same guy.
I still refuse to recognizr Blu-Rays. HD DVD all the way, baby!
You're not on Beta? Trust me, it's coming back.
I got so many Laserdiscs, just need more players!!!
ok so sarcasm. Those were the shit. Its like highest form of analog before things went digital.
D-VHS for the win over both of those 😂
I like both sides of most of those, err um, in some case don't like both sides equally.
Look at all the market strategies that use this simple trick to get people riled up. It's not that we are inherently moving towards tribalism, it's that pushing tribalism generates tons of money. As long as we stay focused on greed and determining worth based on monetary systems, we are doomed to keep falling into that trap. Creating some divide like that is just the easiest and most reliable way to generate interactions with whatever you are trying to push. Plus it primes people to accept something worse off than both parties' situation at the start of the conflict as they now want it over and done with. We can definitely be better if we stop chasing dollars and start chasing community and growth.
There's definite forces, but I don't think Star Wars vs Star Trek in the 1970s and 80s were driven by those market forces, I don't think that push was really understood back then. The same with Munsters vs Addams family (Yeah people liked one or the other).
But that tribalism is definitely being pushed now and it's something we have to try to back away from, or at least be better about. If you love Playstation for instance that's fine.. Just don't spend your day putting down Xbox, enjoy your system, let them enjoy theirs, it's not a zero sum game.