"Banding together" with neighbors, while conceptually related to forming government and taking cohesive social action together, is not really the same thing. O

"Banding together" with neighbors, while conceptually related to forming government and taking cohesive social action together, is not really the same thing. One of the primary arcs in human history has been to recognize the presence of "in-group" and "out-group" others, and, over the long haul increase the number of people considered to be in-group and decrease the size of the out-group. Doing stuff with people clearly recognizable as part of your in-group is excellent and to be encouraged, but the hard work of making government work is related to figuring out how to function with your out-group(s) too.