Rob Campbell’s Great Leap Backwards
Campbell’s argument rejects the notion that the individual can transcend the claims of tribalism and identity politics as ‘hopeless idealism’. The tribe, and the identity it bequeaths, says Campbell, cannot be “wished or washed away”. It is, he declares, “simply part of being human”.
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