Tribes or The New Inevitable

He thought humans to be a promising  species

notwithstanding their odour and pugilistic leanings.

Complex tribal and hierarchical by all accounts.

Territorial. mercurial  omnivores

with only a very fragile taboo  against cannibalism.

Given war, or meteorite disabling solar flare

They would eat one other at the slightest provocation..

or short of that,  process one  another into  fertilizer

for their cabbage farms.

They fear the dilution of their tribes.

Tribes are all they know.

In point of fact, their  treacherous  nature is the greater threat

to their survival than tribalism could ever be.

They have gone as far as they can go with

their endless warring tribes

Should they prevail, the dissolution of tribes

will insist that it become the new inevitable.

Derek Earl Houghton