People need tribes because the alternative is to be completely on your own, which generally means death bc there’s no one to protect you from marauding thugs.

Tribes typically (always?) require you to bend the knee to the tribal narrative as proof of your loyalty to the tribe. And bending the knee wouldn’t count for much if the narrative didn’t weave in a few toxic threads in the form of nonfalsifiable beliefs +/- logical contradictions +/- hypocrisy. So we’ve become adept at embracing toxicity when the tribe demands it.

That’s a bad thing of course, and yet the motive is understandable: the need to belong. We need to appreciate the purpose of tribal toxicity before we jump too quickly to call each other out on it.