Post by The Founder on May 12, 2013 0:37:49 GMT -5
What's so great about tribes?
Humans who develop within tribes usually are socially and psychologically well adjusted and healthy with rare pathological symptoms(which seem to be common in our "civilized" world). The tight-knit nature of the relationships within the tribe seem to foster many substantially intimate and close bonds between the tribe members. New tribe members lack the common feeling of being in a "city of strangers" that many people living a traditionally "civilized" lifestyle feel and seem to have a strong sense of community and foundation.
Members of a tribe contribute as much as they can(or as close to equal as they can) which makes whatever tasks, labor, or occupations the tribe has undertaken relatively easy, painless, and effortless. This equal dilution of labor and work across the tribe makes the required effort needed from each tribe member relatively small. The effect; tribes tend to have greater amounts of leisure time than most "civilized" people while still providing enough payback for a comfortable and healthy lifestyle.
Tribe members can always rely on their tribe to help them in times of crisis. When one person desperately needs help, medical attention, financial help, psychological help, support, or whatever, they are supported by the tribal community. They don't do this out of altruism but out of the communal empathy generated by tribal membership and the understanding that when they are in a time of crisis or need, who they supported will most certainly support them in return. The tribe will do everything in it's power, without jeopardizing it's existence, to support each of its members not only in times of crisis but in everyday life. A sort of joining/birth-to-grave security.
Power is spread out across members of the tribe. A true form of democracy arises that can be described as a sort of mutualistic direct democracy. There can be no oppression upon members of a tribe from the tribe because power is shared and diluted across each member. Tribe-members all have a say in the direction and choices the tribe makes as a whole and tribe members are always free to leave and join other tribes(in New-Tribes that is). With enough tribes a council made of temporary and easily recallable delegates who are responsible to their current tribe could meet and decide upon national programs, laws, and concerns. This "tribe of tribes" method has worked in the past for classic tribes(the Sioux Nation for example) and in various modern settings(ex. The EZLN (or Zapatista movment in Southern Mexico)) or, if people find this unfavorable then we could create a new system for direct and mutual democracy from what we understand to work (the tribe) for humans. We are tremendously creative and imaginary animals after all, and doubtless capable of creating a method that will work for the current standards of humanity while keeping the original method in our minds. Anything is possible.
Humans who develop within tribes usually are socially and psychologically well adjusted and healthy with rare pathological symptoms(which seem to be common in our "civilized" world). The tight-knit nature of the relationships within the tribe seem to foster many substantially intimate and close bonds between the tribe members. New tribe members lack the common feeling of being in a "city of strangers" that many people living a traditionally "civilized" lifestyle feel and seem to have a strong sense of community and foundation.
Members of a tribe contribute as much as they can(or as close to equal as they can) which makes whatever tasks, labor, or occupations the tribe has undertaken relatively easy, painless, and effortless. This equal dilution of labor and work across the tribe makes the required effort needed from each tribe member relatively small. The effect; tribes tend to have greater amounts of leisure time than most "civilized" people while still providing enough payback for a comfortable and healthy lifestyle.
Tribe members can always rely on their tribe to help them in times of crisis. When one person desperately needs help, medical attention, financial help, psychological help, support, or whatever, they are supported by the tribal community. They don't do this out of altruism but out of the communal empathy generated by tribal membership and the understanding that when they are in a time of crisis or need, who they supported will most certainly support them in return. The tribe will do everything in it's power, without jeopardizing it's existence, to support each of its members not only in times of crisis but in everyday life. A sort of joining/birth-to-grave security.
Power is spread out across members of the tribe. A true form of democracy arises that can be described as a sort of mutualistic direct democracy. There can be no oppression upon members of a tribe from the tribe because power is shared and diluted across each member. Tribe-members all have a say in the direction and choices the tribe makes as a whole and tribe members are always free to leave and join other tribes(in New-Tribes that is). With enough tribes a council made of temporary and easily recallable delegates who are responsible to their current tribe could meet and decide upon national programs, laws, and concerns. This "tribe of tribes" method has worked in the past for classic tribes(the Sioux Nation for example) and in various modern settings(ex. The EZLN (or Zapatista movment in Southern Mexico)) or, if people find this unfavorable then we could create a new system for direct and mutual democracy from what we understand to work (the tribe) for humans. We are tremendously creative and imaginary animals after all, and doubtless capable of creating a method that will work for the current standards of humanity while keeping the original method in our minds. Anything is possible.
