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Tribes & Crisis
TRIBES!
This may fill in some gaps for people thinking about surviving the future intact.
How do you manufacture a strong community that protects, defends and
advances the interests of its members? You build a tribe. Tribal organization
is the most survivable of all organizational types and it was the dominant
form for 99.99% of human history. The most important aspect of tribal organization
is that it is the organizational cockroach of human history. It has proven it
can withstand the onslaught of the harshest of environments.
Global depression? No problem.
advances the interests of its members? You build a tribe. Tribal organization
is the most survivable of all organizational types and it was the dominant
form for 99.99% of human history. The most important aspect of tribal organization
is that it is the organizational cockroach of human history. It has proven it
can withstand the onslaught of the harshest of environments.
Global depression? No problem.
If you are like most people in the 'developed world,' you don't have any experience in a true tribal organization. Tribal organizations were crushed in the last couple of
Centuries due to pressures from the nation-state that saw them as
competitors and the marketplace that saw them as impediments. All we
have now it is a moderately strong nuclear family (weakened via modern
economics that forces familial diasporas),
a weak extended family, a loose collection of friends (a social
circle), a tenuous corporate affiliation, and a tangential relationship
with a remote nation-state. That, for many of us, is proving to be
insufficient as a means of withstanding the pressures of the chaotic and
harsh modern environment (D2 in particular).
Centuries due to pressures from the nation-state that saw them as
competitors and the marketplace that saw them as impediments. All we
have now it is a moderately strong nuclear family (weakened via modern
economics that forces familial diasporas),
a weak extended family, a loose collection of friends (a social
circle), a tenuous corporate affiliation, and a tangential relationship
with a remote nation-state. That, for many of us, is proving to be
insufficient as a means of withstanding the pressures of the chaotic and
harsh modern environment (D2 in particular).
The solution to this problem is to build a tribe. A group of people that you are loyal to you and you are loyal
in return. In short, the need for a primary loyalty to a group that
really cares about your survival and future success.
in return. In short, the need for a primary loyalty to a group that
really cares about your survival and future success.
So how do you build a tribe? A strong tribe, in this post-industrial environment*, isn't built from the top down. Instead it is built
organically from the bottom up. A simple tribe starts with cementing
ties to your extended family, a connection of blood. The second step is
to extend that network to include other families and worthy
individuals. A key part of that is to build fictive kinship, a sense
of connectedness that leads to the creation of loyalty to the group.
That kinship is built through (see Ronfeldt's paper
for some background on this):
organically from the bottom up. A simple tribe starts with cementing
ties to your extended family, a connection of blood. The second step is
to extend that network to include other families and worthy
individuals. A key part of that is to build fictive kinship, a sense
of connectedness that leads to the creation of loyalty to the group.
That kinship is built through (see Ronfeldt's paper
for some background on this):
- Story telling. Shared histories and historical narratives.
- Rites of passage. Rituals of membership. Membership is earned not given due to the geographic location of birth or residence.
- Obligations. Rules of conduct and honor. The ultimate penalty being expulsion.
- Egalitarian and often leaderless organization. Sharing is prized.
- Multi-skilled. Segmental organization (lots of redundancy among parts).
- Two-way loyalty. The tribe protects the members and the members protect the tribe. If this isn't implemented, you don't have a tribe, you have a Kiwanis club.
The development of fictive kinship will likely be key to the development of resilient communities (as it is already for global guerrillas). We can already see this process
at work in the UK's Transition Towns movement with their story telling, honoring elders, re-skilling, and leaderless approach (see the 12 steps).
at work in the UK's Transition Towns movement with their story telling, honoring elders, re-skilling, and leaderless approach (see the 12 steps).
*Nationalism is a form of fictive kinship manufactured/bent to serve the needs of the state during our industrial phase of economic organization.
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/03/manufa...
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/03/manufa...
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Comment by Sarah O.Connor Panamericana on May 1, 2010 at 8:29pm
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So as you can all see. tribalism is the biggest human natural problem
we face in solving world problems...
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Comment by Jeremy Laird Hogg on May 1, 2010 at 8:57pm
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This is a more specific home for this comment than in the vice poll =/
Interestingly, care ethics seem to coincide with tribalism. Care ethics pertains to personal ties, such as family and the extended chains of relationships around them. There is a host of literature on care ethics that is very interesting. One reason it's so interesting is because there is a conceptual tension between care and justice. Care = acting from bias, justice = acting from non-bias.
different approaches to the tension can be taken: accept the tension, reduce the morality of care to justice, reduce the morality of justice to care, or distribute the moral ground between situations requiring care and situations requiring justice.
For the best ever position of care ethics, see Nel Noddings.
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Thank you Jeremy, do you have some material ?
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I've got her most amazing book in a box somewhere (from having moved) - I will take a look tonight, as well as check on her through google scholar.
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I will see if there is anything on her on torrents, I've never heard of her.
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Comment by Gabriel Martin on May 1, 2010 at 10:10pm
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I knew that I was missing something in my life... Im looking forward to learning about this
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loyalty?
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yeah. mutual loyalty
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Comment by JWR on May 1, 2010 at 11:31pm
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Great post. But it makes me wonder about something. If you look back at the majority of human history, it appears that while there was definitely an extremely strong loyalty to the tribe, there was no (or very little) loyalty for anything bigger than the tribe.
Does an intense loyalty to your tribe rule out, or severely weaken, a strong loyalty to a greater construct, like your nation, or perhaps all of humanity? I don't think it's coincidental that much of human history was marked with inter-tribe warfare, oppression, slavery, etc.
Is it possible that the weakening of tribal loyalties has enabled (overall) stronger ties to the rest of humanity? If I had a tribal perspective, would I still be able to see people of different ethnicities, races, religions, as my brothers? When I look in my own soul, it seems that the very ability I have to not elevate my kinsmen's needs above others is what enables me to look with compassion on the rest of the world.
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You can think about it in the sense of a global tribe,
and if you think of it as an expanding group,
outside the tribe or inside are very relative concepts.
I think that modern civil persons can handle tribes well,
much better than nation-states.
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