The “proud Irishman” had Emerald Isle-appropriate ditties played at his wake instead of arranging for a klezmer band. The actual Irishman had to produce what turns out to have been faulty documentation in order to assure skeptical in-laws that he was really kosher. I’m neither a biologist, a psychologist nor an anthropologist, but as we look about us today, and cast a glance backward toward the various human histories, it’s not difficult to credit that our species has hard-wired in it at least a predisposition to tribalism.
As to biology, well, my late mother was lavishly what is today called bipolar—personally I prefer the older, more evocative term “manic-depressive”—and among her offspring there are two or three of us who appear, fortunately less dramatically, to have inherited the tendency in some degree. Easy glum, easy glow.
cordially,
As to biology, well, my late mother was lavishly what is today called bipolar—personally I prefer the older, more evocative term “manic-depressive”—and among her offspring there are two or three of us who appear, fortunately less dramatically, to have inherited the tendency in some degree. Easy glum, easy glow.
cordially,