Since high school in the late 80s and early 90s, I've seen the emergence of identify politics rise out of the politically correct movement. One of my favorite satires of that time commenting on this cultural shift was PCU. But it is not surprising to see how many people have fallen into the group trap over the years. Culture has been breading such group identity for a long time. Look at our schools and the spirit we hold for them against other schools. It is in everyone sport. Who remembers when we were rooting for either team, "taste great" or "less filling"? Or, who is alive today that can remember the Cola wars? Are you for Coke or Pepsi? We as a species are prone to tribalize and form into our clans. We pride ourselves on wearing our group's colors. We showcase our tribe's brands and uniforms. Well, I'm an individual. One of over 7 billion individuals. There is no one else in this world like me. I cannot be grouped into any single group where we are completely alike in all things. I will not be placed into a group that another group deems fit for me. I am an individual.
The American press during the 1790s played a role analogous to that of today’s electronic media, which, like today, was used as a vehicle to attack the principles and policies of the opposing political parties of the period. Since the dawn of a literate public actively engaged in government, politicians have both supported and cursed the effects of the press on the political process. The rapidly growing media of the late eighteenth century was seen as a necessary evil that could serve or destroy the evolution of the new federal government.
https://humblymybrain.substack.com/p/the-press-as-a-weapon-how-1790s-newspapers
The Old Testament’s first mention of polygamy appears not among the righteous, but in the violent lineage of Cain, through his descendant Lamech, who “took unto him two wives,” Adah and Zillah (Genesis 4:19). In the same brief passage, Lamech boasts to those wives of having slain two men—one “to my wounding,” and a young man “to my hurt”—while daring any avenger to face a vengeance “seventy and sevenfold” (Genesis 4:23-24). The canonical account leaves the circumstances of these killings ambiguous: accident, self-defense, or cold-blooded murder? Scripture alone offers no clarity. Yet when apocryphal witnesses are consulted, the portrait darkens dramatically, revealing Lamech not as a flawed but sympathetic figure, but as the Bible’s inaugural polygamist whose life bears only the rotten fruit of murder, secret oaths with Satan, and divine curse—fruit that exposes plural marriage’s origin as profoundly corrupt from its very root.
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