Tribalism may replace nationalism
Picture a world in the next century organized not around nation-states but
around a new form of tribes sharing the same culture and values. It's a
world where you pledge allegiance not to a republic, but to a clan.
That possibility isn't too far-fetched when you take the current state of
our fracturing world and overlay new information technologies and the new
telecommunications infrastructure. Here's how it conceivably could play
out:
This melting-pot business is not working out. America no longer seems able
to meld all the various peoples within its b…