I have been a firm believer in family values and the foundation of society via the family. To find other people to live and work with is the most natural instinct humans have. This has been the survival method that has been the most effective for the last 30,000 years.
One major element that I learned reading this part of "Beyond you and Me" is that the original community of humans is not the family, but the tribe. The family is part of a sacred matrix and an integral part of human social existence. This tribal living continued naturally until 7,000 years ago, when the Kurgun people invaded and systematically killed communities. Then again in the 17th century when the Native Americans were killed off by European invaders.
Now most groups in America and all over the world in the 21st century fell apart because of their inability to deal with conflicts that at one point were naturally part of the tribal community, like love power, money and being recognized.
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