-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- http://www.cybercom.net/~wmcguire/tribal.htm The Tribalist's Handbook A word to the wise: generally those who are most offended by "The Tribalist's Handbook" are the most inflamed of messianic tribalists. If the pamphlet gets under your skin, it is because you recognize yourself in it. If you are a strident tribalist, consider seeking help for your affliction before you do real damage to your neighbors. Think about your behavior and realize that you are the mirror image of your enemy. Wayne McGuire ---------------------------- The Tribalist's Handbook A day in which the world media are not entirely preoccupied with the problems and needs of your tribe is a bad day indeed. A fine paradox: the more you battle your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you accumulate. A militant universalism can often be the covert expression of a militant xenophobia: both are driven by fear and hatred of the tribal other. Agonize about the birth rate of your tribe compared to other tribes. All communications are a form of psychological warfare in the holy struggle of your tribe against all the other tribes. All forms of idolatry are repugnant except the idolatry of your tribe. All forms of messianism, tribalism, nationalism, patriotism and ethnocentrism are ridiculous and repulsive -- except your own, which are blessed by God. All tribes are created equal, but some tribes are more equal than others. Always accuse the other tribes of harboring the same evil intentions towards your tribe that your tribe harbors towards them. Always be on the lookout for threats to your tribe. Always be the aggrieved party. Always blame the other tribes for your bad behavior. Always blame the other tribes for your personal problems. Always blame the other tribes for your problems. Always blame the other tribes for your tribal problems. Always keep the attention of the world focused on the sins of the other tribes and off the sins of your tribe. Always keep the other tribes on the defensive. Always put the interests of your tribe above any other interest. Any crime is permitted for the sake of your tribe. Any crime or atrocity committed by your tribe is an act of God. Any crime which provides an advantage for your tribe over any other tribe is justified. Any criticism of tribalism in general is an unacceptable attack on your tribe in particular. Any deed, no matter how criminal or evil, which increases the wealth and power of your tribe is morally justified. Any friend of your tribal enemies is automatically your tribal enemy. Any government around the world that can't be easily bribed and corrupted is a menace to your tribe. Any number of children of other tribes can be easily sacrificed for the advancement of your tribe. Any politician that can't be easily bribed, corrupted or blackmailed is a menace to your tribe. Anyone who disagrees with any member of your tribe about anything is an enemy of God. Anyone who disagrees with any member of your tribe about anything is an enemy of your tribe who must be utterly annihilated. Anyone who disagrees with any member of your tribe about anything must be destroyed. Anyone who disagrees with your reading of your tribal doctrine is a blasphemer, an idolater and a heretic. Anyone who disagrees with your tribe is an enemy of God. Anyone who disagrees with your tribe or with any member of your tribe about anything must be utterly annihilated. Anyone who messes with you messes with your entire tribe. Anyone who opposes you opposes your tribe. Anyone who opposes your tribe opposes God. Therefore, anyone who opposes you opposes God. Anyone who opposes your tribe opposes God. Anyone who refuses to exterminate the enemies of your tribe must be exterminated. Anyone who refuses to hate the enemies of your tribe is an enemy of your tribe. Anyone who won't apologize for or participate in the crimes of your tribe must be destroyed. Anyone who won't grant you special favors and privileges is an enemy of your tribe. Anyone who won't hate your tribal enemies is your tribal enemy. Anyone who won't kiss the ass of your tribe is an evil enemy of your tribe. Anyone who won't kiss the ass of your tribe must be annihilated. Anything that is good for your tribe is universally good; anything that is bad for your tribe is universally bad. Assimilation: a sinister process which weakens the strength of your tribe in its vicious competition with all the other tribes for survival, security, wealth and power. Assume that everyone is a dangerous tribal enemy until proven otherwise. Be a chameleon: fluidly adopt whatever political or ideological coloration best advances your tribal interests at the moment. Be more ruthless with tribal insiders who become tribal traitors than with tribal enemies who are tribal outsiders. Be obnoxious, aggressive, bullying, demanding and high-handed in your dealings with other tribes. Be true to your tribe. Because your tribe is better than all the other tribes, you are better than any tribal outsider. Because your tribe is superior to all the other tribes, you are automatically superior to any tribal outsider. Become totally in love with your tribe to the most spectacular degree of imbecility. Being a member of the special tribe means never having to say you're sorry. Being a member of the special tribe means that you have a divine mandate to lie, steal, cheat and murder without restraint or shame in your dealings with all the other tribes Being a member of the special tribe means you never have to apologize for committing crimes against other tribes. Better to be a conspiracy principal than a conspiracy theorist. Blame the other tribes for the endless messes created by the fanaticism of your tribe. Bore the world to tears by boasting endlessly about the virtue and achievements of your tribe. Bore the world to tears by complaining endlessly about offenses to the delicate sensibilities of your tribe. Bore the world to tears by complaining endlessly about the problems of your tribe. Bore the world to tears by complaining endlessly about the suffering of your tribe. Bore the world to tears by preaching endlessly about the doctrine of your tribe. Bring a deranged and self-destructive fanaticism to whatever ventures your tribe undertakes. Build a world government and global police force to advance and protect the interests of your tribe. Bully, harass and terrorize your tribal adversaries into submission or silence. Bust the balls of your tribal adversaries. Carefully position members of your tribe in leadership positions on all sides of every issue, argument and controversy. Claim exclusive collective credit for the achievements of anyone who possesses even a tiny drop of your tribal blood. Collect detailed files on the psychological weaknesses and vulnerabilities of everyone on earth: you never know when the information might come in handy in the various schemes of your tribe. Collect dirt on anyone who comes into conflict with your tribe. Collected detailed dirt on everyone. Combine the noble rhetoric of ethics and religion with the most despicable and evil deeds and practices. Confuse the hell out of everyone, including yourself. Come up with ingenious explanations to explain away misdeeds and crimes by your tribe. Commit acts of vandalism against your tribe and blame it on the other tribes. Then milk the other tribes for sympathy and shake them down for money, favors and apologies. Commit terrorist acts against the supposed friends of your tribe and blame them on your tribal enemies. Continually rewrite history to portray the best deeds of the other tribes as evil and the worst deeds of your tribe as virtuous. Control the media, control the headlines; control the headlines, control the world. Control the most powerful members of other tribes through flattery, bribery, blackmail and threats. Control the most powerful members of other tribes through the cunning application of rewards and punishments. Convince the gulls among the other tribes that God has commanded them to transfer their assets to your tribe. Convince the gulls among the other tribes to sacrifice their lives for your tribe. Convince the other tribes that the expression of their tribal identity is bad while the expression of your tribal identity is good. Convince the other tribes that the pursuit of their tribal interests is bad while the pursuit of your tribal interest is good. Coordinate your global tribal resources and assets in every nation and across the entire political spectrum to maximize the advantage of your tribe. Criticize your tribe now and then in an effort to seem sane and even-handed regarding the torrents of abuse you regularly direct against all the other tribes. Cryptography is a useful tool for concealing the plots of your tribe against the other tribes. Cultivate friendships with tribal outsiders for the following reasons: use them to attack your tribal enemies; exploit them economically; get closer to them in order to spy on them; infiltrate them in order to destroy them. Cultivate the friendship of tribal outsiders, exploit them for all they're worth, and then throw them away like used tissue. Define all adversaries of your tribe as "terrorists." Define any criticism of any action or policy of your tribe as "hate speech" which should be legally censored. Define as "hate speech" any speech which exposes your tribe's hate speech. Define as a "bigot" anyone who exposes your tribe's bigotry. Deliberately provoke the entire world to hate your tribe and then complain that the entire world hates your tribe. Derive your feelings of purpose and self-worth from your identification with your tribe. Destroy those who refuse to destroy the enemies of your tribe. Develop the means to monitor and analyze all the activity on each and every Internet account in the world in the search for threats against and opportunities for your tribe. Dig up dirt on your tribal adversaries. When you can't find it, invent it, or lure your adversaries into dirty situations. Discredit and demonize the tribalism of other tribes. Do it for your tribe. Dress up your tribal greed as a grandiose, self-righteous religion. Each and every member of the special tribe is a very special person. Each and every member of your tribe is a world savior. Endlessly press on the sore tooth of your tribal anxieties and neuroses. Engage in occasional self-deprecating remarks to try to justify your relentless scathing criticism of other tribes. Ensnare heads of state and world political leaders in sexual, financial and other scandals that can be exploited to the advantage of your tribe. Ethnic nationalism is good for your tribe but bad for all the other tribes. Every bad deed committed by your tribe has a good motive. Every good deed committed by other tribes has a bad motive. Every bitter argument you get into with tribal outsiders about your tribe raises the level of global hostility against your tribe. Every harsh word you speak against a tribal outsider in the name of your tribe raises the level of global hostility towards your tribe. Every member of the special tribe is a little prince or princess. Every member of your tribe is a potential propagandist, spy or covert operator in your holy wars against all the other tribes. Every member of your tribe is a potential spy or covert operator in your tribe's schemes and plots against the other tribes. Every situation in life is a bitter contest in which you must demonstrate the absolute superiority of your tribe over all the other tribes. Every situation in life is an opportunity for your tribe to increase its wealth and power at the expense of the other tribes. Every success and achievement by tribal outsiders is a threat to your tribe. Every unfair deed you commit against a tribal outsider in the name of your tribe raises the level of global hostility against your tribe. Everything in the universe is a weapon to use against your tribal enemies. Evil deeds by members of other tribes are the product of their evil nature. Evil deeds by members of your tribe are provoked by the evil deeds of other tribes. Expect to be kicked out of every territory your tribe tries to inhabit. Nothing makes enemies faster than messianic tribalism. Exploit ethnic, religious and class divisions around the world to the advantage of your tribe. Extremism in the pursuit of your tribal interests is a divine imperative. Feed on apocalyptic friction within your tribe and between your tribe and the rest of the world. Fellow tribal members whose tribal views differ from your own are self-hating tribal traitors. Flatter and insinuate your way into the inner circles of your tribal adversaries. Free speech is good for your tribe but bad for other tribes. God created the universe to be consumed by your tribe. God created the universe to be used and abused by your tribe. God created the universe to serve as a stage for endless holy wars between your tribe and all the other tribes. God created the universe to serve as the plaything of your tribe. God has chosen your tribe to save the world. God has commanded you to give your ultimate loyalty only to your own tribe and to spy on all the other tribes on behalf of your tribe. God has commissioned your tribe with the task of saving the world. God has decreed that anyone who disagrees with your tribe must be utterly annihilated. God has devoted much time and energy to punishing your tribe because He loves it so much. God has granted your tribe a divine license to annihilate anyone who gets in its way. God has granted your tribe a divine license to commit any crime in its vicious competition with all the other tribes for wealth and power. God has provided you with a divine mandate to be as big an asshole as you want to be. God invented the universe to give your tribe the opportunity to exploit and rule it. God is boiling over with rage at those who have been insufficiently subservient to your tribe. God is on the side of your tribe. God is the dummy and your tribe is the ventriloquist. God loves your tribe better than all the other tribes. God made all the other tribes to obey and serve your tribe. God made the human race to adore, serve and obey your tribe. God made the world for your tribe to spy on, conspire against, abuse and plunder. God made you do it. God made your tribe do it. God made your tribe to dominate all the other tribes. God put you on this earth to maximize your wealth and power by using your tribal network to destroy and plunder the other tribes. God was created to know, love and serve your tribe. God's only interest in other tribes is to use them as tools to punish or reward your tribe -- they have no autonomous life or value of their own. God: a big bad bully who will beat up on anyone who annoys you and your tribe. God: a useful device for justifying any crime or predation your tribe commits against other tribes. God: a useful device which allows you to claim authoritative omniscience about everything while being spared the hard work of acquiring hard knowledge about anything. God: that still small voice inside your brain urging you to exploit and plunder the other tribes. God: that still small voice inside your brain urging you to replicate your genes throughout the entire universe. God: that still small voice urging you to maximize your wealth and power at the expense of the other tribes. God: the personification of your tribe's worst personality traits. God: your tribal and personal interests. God: your tribal greed and megalomania. God: your tribal will to power. Have you annihilated an enemy of your tribe today? Have you assaulted an enemy of your tribe today? Have you destroyed an enemy of your tribe today? Have you savaged an enemy of your tribe today? Herd and stampede other tribes into wars with one another when it advances the interests of your tribe. How many times have you thought about the enemies of your tribe today? If God had intended the other tribes to prosper, he would have equipped them with sufficient cunning to defend themselves against your tribe's predations. If God had intended the other tribes to withstand the cunning of your tribe, he would have given them at least half a brain -- but He didn't. If it's good for your tribe it's good for you. If it's good for your tribe, do it. If you fail to perform your detailed and arcane tribal rituals to the letter, God will punish you and your tribe and the universe will collapse. If you look carefully, you can find outrageous insults to your tribe everywhere. If you think "The Tribalist's Handbook" applies exclusively to your tribe, you are a besotted messianic tribalist to the utmost degree. In a nutshell, you are God. In order to save your tribe from the scourge of assimilation, commit provocations that polarize the rest of the world against it. In private conversations among your fellow tribal members, gloat and boast about the power of your tribe to influence the world, but dismiss as wild conspiracy theories any remarks by tribal outsiders about the power of your tribe. In your dealings with other tribes always take and never give. In your holy war against the other tribes cultivate all those personality traits that are generally referred to as sociopathic. Incite and exploit conflict among all the other tribes. Inflict the insanity of your messianic tribalism on the entire world in the name of God. Invading and violating the physical, psychological and cultural space of other tribes is your tribe's divine imperative. Is it good for the tribe? Is it good for your tribe? It is a poor tribalist indeed whose thoughts are not perpetually obsessed with enemies of and threats to his or her tribe. It is impossible for your tribe to be happy unless all the other tribes are miserable. It is necessary diligently to intercept and analyze each and every private communication in the world in order to ferret out tribal enemies, tribal traitors and evil plots against your tribe. It is not enough simply to crush and plunder other tribes: one must savor their humiliation. It's important always to get the last laugh in your dealings with the other tribes. Justify every evil deed committed by your tribe in the name of your good intentions. Keep detailed lists and files on anyone who has ever offended or who in the future might offend your tribe. Keep detailed lists of all your tribal enemies. Keep the entire world perpetually embroiled in your tribal conflicts. Keep the entire world perpetually embroiled in your tribal holy wars. Life is a big blame game in which the object is to outblame the other tribes. Life is a game in which the object is to use your tribe to maximize your personal advantage in the vicious competition with the rest of the human race for survival, security, wealth and power. Life is a nasty game in which the object is for your tribe to out-cheat, out-steal, out-blame, out-bluster, out-bully and out-scam all the other tribes. Life is a vicious competitive struggle between your tribe and all the other tribes for wealth and power. Life is an endless holy war between your tribe and all the other tribes. Life is an eternal holy war between your tribe and all the other tribes in the vicious competitive struggle for wealth and power. Life is the eternal struggle between your tribe and the enemies of your tribe. Like a beggar in a third world metropolis, prominently display the wounds of your tribe to the world in a quest for sympathy and handouts. Like the God of your tribe, you are a master of the universe. Live in perpetual fear that the other tribes will figure out what your tribe is up to. Love your fellow tribal member as you love yourself. Loyalty to your tribe takes precedence over loyalty to any nation, government, organization, party or interest in the world. Lying, stealing, cheating, poisoning, arson, terrorism, murdering and blackmail are good if they provide an advantage for your tribe over any other tribe. Marginalize, censor, terrorize, and , if necessary, murder the critics of your tribe. Silence them by whatever means are necessary. Messianic tribalism is an infinitely downward-spiraling negative feedbook loop in which the problems of a tribe mount in direct proportion to its misguided efforts to solve them. Messianic tribalism: an aromatic blend of megalomania, paranoia, infantilism, aggression, narcissism, sociopathy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, manic-depression, sadomasochism, self-delusion, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, vampirism, xenophobia and racism. Morality and ethics are tools with which to maximize the wealth and power of your tribe. Murder, conspiracy, arson, blackmail, terrorism, drug trafficking, extortion, threats, intimidation, collective punishment, kidnapping, theft, money laundering, fraud, lies, deception, torture, assassination, embezzlement, counterfeiting, poisoning and slander are all valuable tools in the vicious competitive struggle between your tribe and all the other tribes for wealth and power. Never apologize to a tribal outsider for anything. Never forget: without your tribe to provide you with support, purpose and identity, you are a nothing and a nobody. Never forgive an injury to your tribe, no matter how slight. Never give a member of another tribe an even break. Never give a tribal outsider an even break. Never give another tribe an even break. Never leave an insult or slight to your tribe massively unavenged. Never miss an opportunity to help a member of your tribe or to harm a member of another tribe. Never miss an opportunity to lose a friend for the sake of winning an argument about your tribe. Never miss an opportunity to play a dirty trick on a tribal outsider. Never miss an opportunity to play a dirty trick on another tribe. Never stop complaining about how many injustices and injuries your tribe has suffered. Never stop complaining about how the entire world is against your tribe. Never trust a tribal outsider. No matter how many favors and gifts the other tribes shower upon your tribe, their tribute will never be enough. Nothing is more pleasurable than destroying the cultures of other tribes. Nothing is more pleasurable than ridiculing other tribes. Now and then the suspicion will creep into your mind that your messianic tribalism has made you quite mad and ruined your social relations. Suppress these suspicions with all your might and redouble your efforts to ferret out and crush your tribal enemies. Now matter how much tribal outsiders grovel to curry favor with your tribe, kick in their teeth in the end. Obsessively fight ancient battles with your tribal enemies over and over again. Of all forms of tribalism, messianic tribalism which combines ethnic and religious chauvinism with infantile fantasies of apocalypse is the most volatile and dangerous. Only your tribe should be allowed to develop and possess weapons of mass destruction. Organize your entire life around battles with your tribal enemies. Other tribes are a disease. Other tribes are food. Other tribes are good for labor, entertainment and target practice. Other tribes are lower life forms. Other tribes are prey. Other tribes are unclean. Other tribes smell. Other tribes suck. Plant members of your tribe as infiltrators, spies and agents provocateurs in any movement or organization that might threaten your tribe. Plunder and destroy other tribes by hooking them on drugs and other addictive substances. Position members of your tribe on all sides of every controversy. Practice discrimination against tribal outsiders in your territory. Complain about discrimination against your tribe in their territories. When the world notices the discrepancy, seethe with moral indignation about its bigotry. Pray for the day when your tribe will possess enough power to bully and dominate the entire world with impunity. Pray for the day when your tribe will possess enough power to drop its mask and openly express its contempt and hatred for all the other tribes with impunity. Pray to God every day that He didn't make you a member of an unspecial tribe. Present yourself to the world as an authoritative spokesperson for your entire tribe. Prevent the other tribes from celebrating themselves, their holidays and their traditions. Provoke fights with weaker tribes in order to have an excuse to crush and plunder them. Punish the family members of your tribal adversaries. Recruit the worst thugs and criminals from the other tribes to enforce your tribal interests. Relentlessly goad other tribes to attack the current adversaries of your tribe. Religion: a useful tool for maintaining the solidarity and discipline of your tribe. Religion: a useful weapon with which to bully and bash the other tribes. Religious zeal in your tribe is beautiful. Religious zeal in other tribes is horrifying. Respond with vicious personal attacks against anyone who questions any policy or belief of your tribe. Reward the friends and punish the enemies of your tribe. Screw members of other tribes before they screw you. For that matter, screw members of your own tribe before they screw you. Seek to acquire control over any movement or organization which might threaten your tribe. Seek to control and expand the power of intelligence and police agencies all around the world in your quest for tribal security. Seek to replace tribal outsiders with members of your tribe in every powerful position in the world. Set up an elaborate network of public relations agencies worldwide to deal with the inevitable and endless problems with other tribes generated by your militant tribalism. Set up terrorist cells all around the world to use against your tribal enemies. Since God is on your side, your tribe can get away with anything. Since you are a member of God's special tribe, no other tribe has a right to judge you in its courts of law. Since you are a member of God's special tribe, you are a very special person who deserves many special privileges. Since you are a member of God's special tribe, you are not bound by the rules and regulations that govern the unspecial tribes. Since you are a member of God's special tribe, you have a divine right to be as obnoxious, predatory and vindictive as you like. Since you are a member of the special tribe, all the other tribes owe you a living. Since you are a member of the special tribe, everything you say must be true. Since you are a member of the special tribe, you are a very special person indeed. Since you are a member of the special tribe, you are an infallible spokesperson for God. Since you are always plotting mischief against the other tribes, assume that they are always plotting mischief against you. Since you are brimming over with hatred of the other tribes, assume that they are brimming over with hatred for you. Since your tribal enemies are everywhere, spy on everyone and everything all the time. Smash every idol except the idol of your tribe. Socialize only with members of your own tribe unless you can gain an important tribal advantage by socializing with members of other tribes. Someday the entire world will bow down before the leader of your tribe and lick his feet. Then the wonderful messianic age will commence. Someday there will an apocalyptic war in which God will exterminate all of your enemies and make your tribe the undisputed master of the planet. Then the world will be perfect. Someday your tribe will rule the world. Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice members of your tribe for your tribe's greater good. Spy on everyone and everything in the search for enemies of and plots against your tribe. Strike terror deep into the hearts of your tribal adversaries. Support the U.N. when it supports your tribe and attack the U.N. when it is in conflict with your tribe. Teach the other tribes to hate themselves and to love your tribe. Tell any lies that will help incite world hatred against your tribal enemies. Ten mediocrities from your tribe, coordinating their activities in secret and using dirty tricks, can easily crush any genius from another tribe who is standing on his or her own and fighting fair and square. That which is Other must be destroyed. The arrogance of other tribes is maddening. The baser your tribe's motives, the more pious and self-righteous should be the profession of its good intentions. The besotted tribalist is easy to recognize: he or she can't stop talking about the problems, controversies and enemies of his or her tribe. The capital of your tribe is the capital of the universe. The customs of other tribes are ridiculous. The enemies of your tribe are everywhere, plotting and plotting. The enemies of your tribe are everywhere. The entire universe revolves around the conflicts of your tribe with all the other tribes. The entire universe revolves around the problems and needs of your tribe. The extremists among the enemies of your tribe are your tribe's most valuable assets. The greater your tribal paranoia, the more tribal enemies you make. The hatred of the other tribes for your tribe is the perfect mirror image of the hatred of your tribe for them. The human race is divided into two fundamental groups: those who are members of your tribe and those who are not. The law shall go forth from your tribe. The life of any member of your tribe is worth more than the lives of all the members of all the other tribes combined. The more demands you make on other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more emotional you are about your tribal issues, the more tribal enemies you make. The more favors and sacrifices you request from other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more favors you ask of other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more hypersensitive you are about criticism of your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more messianic the tribalism you project, the more messianic the counter-tribalism you provoke. The more messianic your tribalism, the more tribal enemies you make. The more needy your tribe is, the more tribal enemies it makes. The more obsessive your tribalism, the more tribal enemies you make. The more power your tribe acquires over the other tribes, the more the other tribes hate your tribe. The more preoccupied you are with your tribal problems and enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more special privileges your tribe demands, the more the other tribes hate your tribe. The more strident the tribalism, the more strident the counter-tribalism. The more strident your tribalism, the more tribal enemies you make. The more vengeance you feel in your heart against your tribal enemies, the more holy you are and the more God loves you. The more you attack and insult the beliefs and customs of other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you attack other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you attempt to acquire power over other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you attempt to assert your authority over other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you attempt to control other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you attempt to suppress and censor legitimate criticism of your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you babble and rant about your tribal issues, your tribal problems, your tribal needs, your tribal complaints and your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you brag and boast about your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you brood and seethe about your tribal problems and enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you catalog offenses against your tribe by other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you celebrate victories over other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you claim a special status for your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you claim special privileges for your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you complain about your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you complain about your tribal problems and tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you complain about your tribal problems, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you conspire against other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you demonize others as enemies of your tribe, the more you can inflate your sense of self-righteousness and self-importance. The more you do battle with your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you emphasize tribal distinctions in the world, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you engage in bitter arguments about your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you engage in emotionally excited exchanges with tribal outsiders about your tribal issues, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you entangle other tribes in your tribal messes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you express contempt for other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you fear the other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you flaunt the myths and symbols of your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you focus on threats to your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you force your tribal issues on other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you go looking for tribal enemies, the more you find them. The more you goad other tribes to attack your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you harass other tribes about your tribal issues, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you harass tribal outsiders about your tribal issues, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you hate your tribal enemies, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you inject religious and ethnic chauvinism and exclusivism into your tribal affairs, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you lie about your tribal motives, agenda and behavior, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you meddle in the affairs of other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you play one tribe off against another, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you practice trickery and deceit against other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you preach at other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you promote the solidarity of your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you rely on your tribe for your sense of identity, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you search out slights and offenses against your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you spy on other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you squabble and bicker with other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you talk about your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you try to cover up crimes by your tribe against other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you try to justify double standards with regard to the behavior of your tribe vs. other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you try to justify misdeeds by your tribe, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you victimize the other tribes, the more you should complain about the victimization of your tribe by your victims. The more you violate the rights of other tribes, the more tribal enemies you make. The more you whine about your tribal problems, the more tribal enemies you make. The more your tribe attacks it enemies, real and imagined, the more enemies it makes. The more your tribe attempts to assert its authority over the world, the more enemies it makes. The more your tribe attempts to expand its power in the world, the more enemies it makes. The more your tribe is in the wrong, the more it should seethe with self-righteous moral indignation. The more your tribe preaches love and peace the more it spreads hate and war. The more your tribe spies, the more enemies it makes, and the more enemies it makes, the more it must spy. The object of the game is to maximize the latitude for tribal expression of your tribe and to minimize the latitude for tribal expression of all the other tribes. The other tribes are responsible for any evil deeds committed by your tribe. The other tribes made you do it. The other tribes must be taught a lesson about their arrogant refusal to accept the supremacy of your tribe. The personality of God is capricious, jealous, paranoid, wrathful, violent and vengeful -- just like the personality of your tribe. What a remarkable coincidence. The piss of your tribe smells like the most exquisite perfume. The ruin that your tribe creates wherever it goes is part of the divine cleansing process. The territory of your tribe is holy; the territory of the other tribes is unholy. The territory of your tribe is more holy than territory anywhere else in the world. The tribalism index: the degree to which criticisms of tribalism bother any person or group. The tribalism index: the degree to which criticisms of tribalism bother any tribalist or tribe. The tribalism index: the degree to which someone is offended by "The Tribalist's Handbook." The tribalism index: the degree to which someone recognizes himself or herself described in "The Tribalist's Handbook." The tribalism index: the frequency with which a tribe complains about offenses to its delicate sensibilities. The tribalism index: the frequency with which a tribe complains about other tribes. The tribalism index: the frequency with which a tribe is involved in arguments and conflicts with other tribes over tribal matters. The tribalism index: the frequency with which someone complains about an insult, injury or injustice to his or her tribe. The tribalism index: the frequency with which someone defends or apologizes for the behavior or policies of his or her tribe. The tribalism index: the frequency with which someone engages in bitter arguments with tribal enemies. The tribalism index: the frequency with which someone mentions his or her tribe, tribal problems, tribal controversies or tribal enemies. The tribalism index: watch who jumps the highest when the subject of tribalism comes up. The tribalism of your tribe is the only legitimate and righteous tribalism. The tribalism of your tribe is the world's only universal tribalism. The tribe that scores highest on the tribalism index is the tribe that will be in greatest conflict with the world. The tribe, the tribe, the tribe -- always the tribe. The very worst member of your tribe is better than the very best member of any other tribe. The whole world hates your tribe -- but not as much as your tribe hates the whole world and itself. The whole world is against your tribe. The whole world is laughing behind your back. The whole world is out to get your tribe. The whole world is plotting behind your back. The world is a farm, your tribe is the farmer, and the other tribes are livestock. The world needs to be taught a lesson for its insolence and insubordination with regard to your tribe. The world owes your tribe a living. There are no amount of apologies the other tribes can offer that will relieve them from the obligation to grovel for forgiveness from your tribe forever. There is no situation that you can't bully and lie your way through. There is not a system in the world that your tribe can't manipulate to its advantage. There is only one rule in the vicious holy war between your tribe and all the other tribes for wealth and power: win. There's a tribal angle on everything. Think of your messianic tribalism as the gang principle taken to the ultimate degree. Think of your tribe as the world's most powerful and cunning intelligence organization. Those who are not with your tribe are against it. Those who do not love your tribe unconditionally hate your tribe, and those who hate your tribe must be destroyed. Those who do not obey and adore your tribe must be destroyed. Threaten the family members of your tribal adversaries. To contemplate the external beauty and inner perfection of your tribe is to be filled with utter bliss and ecstasy. Transform secret police agencies worldwide into instruments and tools of your tribe's secret police. Treasure your tribal enemies: without them you'd have no tribe. Tribal insider, tribal outsider, tribal enemy, tribal traitor, tribal ally -- these are the only categories that matter in life. Tribal members who marry tribal outsiders are tribal traitors. Tribal outsiders are beasts, savages and slaves. Tribal outsiders must be either for or against your tribe -- there can be no middle or neutral ground. Tribalism is a tool and instrument for greatly magnifying your personal power. Tribalism is a valuable tool for magnifying your personal strength in the vicious competitive struggle against the rest of the human race for survival, security, wealth and power. Try to conceal your tribal agenda from tribal outsiders. Try to pass off the worst traits of your tribe as charming and loveable eccentricities. Turn every small disagreement between your tribe and the rest of the world into an apocalyptic holy war. Use every dirty trick in the book to promote the advantage of your tribe. Use every opportunity to keep your tribe whipped up in a state of fear and hysteria about your tribal enemies. Use local police agencies all around the world to spy on the enemies of your tribe. Use organized crime elements in your tribe as part of your tribe's global terrorist network. Use religious rites and rituals to pump up your tribal hysteria, hatred, paranoia and self-righteousness. Use rigid religious doctrine as a means to maintain your tribe's solidarity and discipline in its holy war against all the other tribes. Use the Internet to spy on your tribal enemies. Use the media to suppress negative information about your tribe and positive information about other tribes, and to highlight positive information about your tribe and negative information about other tribes. Use the rhetoric of anti-tribalism to break down the other tribes and to build up your own tribe. Use the rhetoric of anti-tribalism to weaken the other tribes and to strengthen your tribe. Use your tribal network to launch well-coordinated personal attacks on your tribal adversaries. Use your tribe's self-promoted status as the world's preeminent victim to victimize all the other tribes. Vengeance is mine, says your tribe. Whatever is good for your tribe is universally good. Whatever is bad for your tribe is universally bad. Whatever strengthens your tribal solidarity and weakens the solidarity of the other tribes is good. Whatever strengthens your tribe and weakens other tribes is good. Whatever weakens your tribe and strengthens other tribes is evil. When attacking your tribal adversaries and enemies, always try to conceal your tribal motivations and agenda. When confronted with authentic documents that expose crimes or misdeeds of your tribe, brazenly accuse the documents of being forgeries. When involved in ugly conflicts concerning your tribe in cyberspace, it's usually a good idea to cower behind a pseudonym. When it suits your tribe, be a global statist; or when it suits your tribe, be an anti-global statist. When it suits your tribe, be an ethnic nationalist; or when it suits your tribe, be an anti-ethnic nationalist. When other tribes try to disentangle themselves from the messes in which your tribe has entangled them, bury them in savage verbal abuse. When the government is friendly to your tribe, be an authoritarian statist; when the government is unfriendly to your tribe, be an anarchist and revolutionary. When you are losing an argument about your tribal affairs and policies, resort to personal abuse; when personal abuse fails, resort to threats of physical violence; when threats of physical violence fail, use real physical violence. When you can't win an argument about your tribal beliefs and policies with the strength of your reasoning and facts, resort to personal abuse, threats of violence or actual violence. When you don't have tribal enemies, create them. When you help your fellow tribal member you help yourself in the vicious competitive struggle against the rest of the human race for survival, security, wealth and power. When you help your tribe you help yourself in the vicious competitive struggle against the rest of the human race for survival, security, wealth and power. When your personal interests come into conflict with the interests of your tribe, betray your tribe. When your tribe is caught conspiring against another tribe, angrily accuse the other tribe of conspiring against your tribe. Whenever possible, do business with members of your own tribe. Whenever possible, hire members of your own tribe. Whenever possible, rig situations to the benefit of your tribe. Wherever you live in the world, define the public interest as synonymous with your tribal interest. Whip up hysteria and hatred about one international villain after another -- do anything to keep the world's attention from settling on the misdeeds and crimes of your tribe. Why are all the other tribes always so angry at your tribe? Why are you bothering the rest of the world with your tribal mess? Because God told you to. Why can't the other tribes be more sympathetic to your compulsive emotional need to plunder and destroy them? Why can't the other tribes keep their noses out of the way of your tribe's fist? Why did God make you? To gratify your rampant tribal greed to the utmost and to humiliate and crush all the other tribes. With enough money you can bribe your tribe out of any problem. Without relentless apocalyptic friction between your tribe and the other tribes, your tribe would collapse. Without relentless friction between your tribe and all the other tribes, the pleasurable mental disease of your tribalism would disappear. Without the other tribes to blame, abuse and feed on your tribe would totally self-destruct. Without tribal enemies you'd have no reason to live. Without tribal enemies your tribe would fall apart. Without your tribe you are a pitiful creature indeed. Without your tribe you are nothing. You can never be too abusive, untruthful and unjust in the pursuit of your tribal interests. You can never be too paranoid about threats to your tribe. You can never be too sneaky in the pursuit of your tribal interests. You can win any argument simply by smearing your opponent as a demonic enemy of your tribe. You make enemies wherever you go. Your tribal paranoia is directly proportional to your tribal megalomania. Your tribe can use religion to justify any crime. Your tribe commands and the other tribes obey. Your tribe has a divine right to assassinate anyone who gets in its way. Your tribe has a divine right to control completely the agenda of other tribes, but no other tribe has a right even to influence the agenda of your tribe. Your tribe has a divine right to make unlimited demands on other tribes. Your tribe has the right to invade the privacy of all the other tribes. No other tribe has the right to invade the privacy of your tribe. Your tribe is a "light" unto the other tribes. Your tribe is on a mission from God. Your tribe is superior to all the other tribes. Your tribe is the colonizer and the other tribes are the colonized. Your tribe is the heart and soul and mind of the world. Your tribe is the imperial center and the other tribes are the imperial periphery. Your tribe is the master race. Your tribe is the priesthood of the world. You talk: the other tribes listen. You teach: the other tribes learn. You command: the other tribes obey. Your tribe is the sole intermediary between God and the human race. Your tribe is the vanguard of the human race. Your tribe knows what's best for the world. Your tribe occupies the pinnacle of the food chain. Your tribe rules! Your tribe speaks for God and you speak for your tribe. You are God. Your tribe takes and the other tribes give. Your tribe teaches and the other tribes learn. Your tribe will roll over the universe like a mighty tidal wave, crushing everything in its path. 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