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TRIBELESS

A lot of electrons had to die as we have discussed ad nauseam the aspects of tribalism, the move towards tribes after the nation state loses the excess energy to stay solvent, the guerrilla war by tribes in the US ( no longer confined to the ghettos-thank you public transportation! ), the anthropologist structure of tribes and blah friggin blah.  I’m sure I’m not done, or anywhere close to it, but today we talk about NOT having a tribe.  As I’ve mentioned before in the comments, I tend to compress events time wise.  More likely, given our average age, none of us will actually see the widespread formation of tribes. 

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Compressing timelines is helpful seeing the big picture.  If you can see the history prior to excess energy, the power structure before and during based on that surplus, you can see the future rather clearly.  But nothing changes overnight, so going from a fast and breezy summation back down to the gritty day by day reality, the mess that is reality also needs to be dwelt with.  It is refreshingly carefree to state “after a short time of spastic ammunition use, the living will tend to husband their remaining rounds, even with semi-auto’s, and abandon tactics such as spray and pray and suppressive fire”.  It is another kettle of fish entirely to live through the several months of lead flying everywhere.

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As is the transition from State to tribe ( with a minority of areas still able to form centralized agricultural empires-very few areas are still naturally fertile, as population growth was only kept ahead of until recently with industrializing and carbon fuel fertilizing.  Most of the globe has denuded soil, only productive with artificial inputs ).  It won’t be overnight, even if you could make a claim its been ongoing for near fifty years already anyway.  Look at the 90’s.  Between the disruption caused by Iraq and our battle over oil, and the last few years disrupted by Y2K and the Tech Wreck, that was our last financial gravy train ( the housing bubble later was all unicorn fart finances, not cheap and abundant oil which was what made the earlier decade ).

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Yet, even in the 90’s, there was much ado about losing control of vast areas of real estate to tribal occupation.  Of course, the Powers That Be blamed everything EXCEPT loss of control.  They blamed drugs, or racism or inequality or under budged police forces or politics.  But really, it was nothing more than the concrete reality that the State was ceding control on the monopoly on violence ( which is the ONLY indicator of power and control.  Nothing else ) in one area after another.  And, I’m sure few would have the desire to admit otherwise, things have gotten oh so much worse since then. 

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Political Correct Thought Police won’t even allow the conversation of the above, but that is just denial by the nation state that the die has been cast ( PC’ers are just the meat puppet of the Elite.  They have as much control as Obammy or Trump ).  Look at the poster child of failed states, Afghanistan, and outside of a few neighborhoods in Kabul there is ONLY tribal control ( warring tribes fighting for control doesn’t change the fact ).  That is our destination.  However, Afghanistan has always been tribal, which is why they have lasted as long as they have through decades of foreign occupation.  In the US, tribes didn’t form until recently.

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Which means there is no fallback position.  That certainly isn’t the family, deliberately killed off generations ago ( Social Security, Bitches Lib, taxing families off the farm ).  Folks can form associations, and survival “families”, but I don’t see coherent tribes being able to form from the wet putrid clay of today’s population.

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There is a lot of cultural deprogramming to do to get tribal material, and since we are evolutionarily opposed to change outside of the application of pain or suffering, that will be a drawn out process.  Yes, I’ve stated in the past “burrow down and hide out during a die-off and then reemerge and join a tribe”, but that may or may not be feasible.  Several minions have said they’d prefer to just hunker down and avoid people since people are so rotten and worthless, and there is something to be said for that, also.  The LONG term associations that have the only chance for success are tribes, true, but the Industrial Oil Age also gives you an interim choice.

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While the surplus lasts, while the petroleum product supplies are still in stock, you can keep your narcissistic individualism attitude and avoid tribalism ( not that tribal dynamics are bad, just that most of us might be too old to adapt successfully to them ).  This isn’t about being a hermit, as nice as they would be in theory, but about selfish folks banding together for a strength in numbers lifeboat hide-out.  But they won’t be a tribe.  Tribes are too communistic and Americans and ilk are too self-centered and consumerist orientated.  In the tribe, everything is ours.  In present day, all in mine.  You can’t mix and match the two systems.

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Even if individual or family wealth is allowed, being tribal means in bad times you share that wealth as if it was a animal carcass and other families are hungry.  The expectation was reciprocation, a built in safety net.  Today, very few have that mentality.  Even if they think they do, giving charity, today one views this as an optional activity with them acting as a gatekeeper.  Tribes don’t make this optional.  You aren’t allowed to build your own safety net.  Our outlook today is that ONLY personal nets will save us.

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That might be a subtle difference, but it is important.  Today, we have the PERSONAL responsibility for taking care of our family ( and sometimes, friends ).  That is the expectation, even if not widely held or practiced.  Tribes have a communal responsibility.  And the simple fact is that cultural programming doesn’t suddenly change.  It will be a violent change over, as all change is.  Most of us will only see continuation of nation state citizen mentalities, husbanding the last of the dwindling supplies.  It might even become MORE dangerous to push for tribalism in this situation, as change is always resisted and sometimes violently.  Next article, we continue on how to live without a tribe.

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