Hacking Geopolitics

The metatribes

With 7 billion people the world looks like a widely diverse place, with hundreds of different countries and thousands of competing tribes or cultures. We often hear it discussed the war between east and west, or capitalism and socialism, but what is the meat behind these divisions, what is the core of the moral divide.
I was looking into this about 4 years ago, in 2016 when my attention had been accidentally captured by ongoing wars in the world. The most obvious being the building tension created by suicide bombings in the west by ‘Islamic extremists’.
At first it just seemed…