Why is that so hard? Because “the one big bug we have as humans is that we are tribal,” answers Marina Gorbis, executive director at the Institute for the Future. “We always need the group to give us identity. We are wired that way. From the first campfire, human beings evolved as tribal beings.” And therein lies the challenge, and the need for moral innovation: in a much more interdependent world we have to redefine the tribe we are in—we have to enlarge the notion of community—precisely as President Obama advocated in his Hiroshima speech: “What makes our species unique [is that] we’re not
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