I won’t lie; I’m writing this in a state of shock, disbelief, hurt, betrayal. Not from anything that happened to me directly, but from something I read today that I will detail below. And in thinking about it, I’ve come up with a theory that I thought I’d put out into the world: many of us, in our increasingly tribalized world, are so concerned with protecting our tribe or flock from outsiders and outside threats that we completely overlook the diseases within. I’ll give three examples, the first of which is the impetus for this piece.