Dying tribalism

topic posted Thu, December 15, 2005 - 11:29 AM by  eric
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I have been coming a disturbing conclusion, that tribe.net is an almost all-white community, with little or no diversity or minority voice. Once I linked this to the burning man, it made more sense, since that event is also like a white people convention. It's not like I hate white people, or their society and culture; I was brought up in that world, and now I am bored of it.

I am for diversity and internationalism, and this tribe stuff is very parochial. What is a tribe, anyway? It's an exclusionary device used to enmesh a bunch of people who have the same viewpoints, if not DNA, and organize the group using arbitrary criteria to expropriate labor. So; the tribe organizes around the titular leader, all wealth and power accrue to him who then dispenses it downwards. It's very autocratic without the benefits of even that symbiosis of class structure and dualism.

Everything passes through the leader. In order for the males to have sex with the females, they have to have to submit to the will of the leader. This is how you can identify all tribal social structure. Tribalism is even more primitive than capitalism, and even more self-delusional.

Tribes are dying everywhere, it's a dying social system because everyone is frozen in their tracks forver, there is no movement, no dialectic, only stagnation.
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eric
SF Bay Area
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