Globalism, Tribalism, and the Quest for Pluralism: Media's Changing Impact

SMPA's Lee W. Huebner explores and explains the inherent tension throughout history between humankind’s global and tribal impulses. The text describes globalization as an outlook that can imply a cooperative, outreaching, embracing attitude and tribalization as a perspective characterized by a more inward-turning, identity-oriented, tradition-based way of thinking. It connects a healthy balance of the two impulses with the concept of pluralism.