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For the longest time, the only answer you got as to how to survive the apocalypse was, “tribe up”.  This is still the de facto response.  Of course, there are a lot of de facto responses that blow elongated mule member.  “Semi-auto only”, “Concrete bunker atop the mountain”, “Need 20 acres and a mule”, and of course my favorite “if you don’t have a FLIR scope you cannot own the night, command your battle space, realize any force multiplication or impress your buddies in the bar”. 

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I’m not sure how many of you have noticed, but I am overly analytical.  I dissect every issue down to a molecular level, then won’t shut up about it until I pummel all opposition to my new point away.  And you wonder how I’m able to write every day for years and decades.  First, I take pretty much any and every survivalist and prepper trope and I take immature childish glee in proving it wrong.  Not only to make myself look smarter but to delight in the simple act of playing the gadfly.  Then, I dissect that position into as many facets as I am able.  Then, as a cherry atop my newly constructed heap of irritation, I look at making myself wrong.

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That is where we are at today.  For the longest time I have questioned the logic of needing a tribe ( to be clear, yes, you need a tribe.  My point was that there is nobody worthy of joining, being weak and pathetic puny earthlings.  Far better to hole up solo, THEN join a tribe ).  Now, as if that wasn’t enough dissent and disagreement, I’m starting to wonder about the many disadvantages of my solo stance.  To get straight to the point, as advantageous as going temporarily solo is, might you be screwing yourself?  What if you CAN’T join a tribe afterwards?

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Historically, tribes don’t let just anyone join them.  Just like the chimps, the warrior males tend to be blood related ( cousins, uncle, nephews, etc. ).  This adds familial loyalty to tribal loyalty.  Not to mention, everyone growing up is trained at a very early age at warrior skills.  Peer pressure conformity, allowed violence to both practice fighting and pain toleration.  Sports for conditioning, hunting for stealth practice.  And etcetera.  The females are where the tribe keeps the bloodlines fresh and diverse. 

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Females are programmed to move to a new household and assimilate and bond with new loyalty to a new group ( in cultures where old relationships are needed as a fallback bug-out location, the old ties are not severed ).  Males are programmed to bond with and move loyalty over to those displaying the most competent level of war making ( this is why the old practice of local home units electing their own officers was scraped after the War Of Northern Aggression.  Tribe could now only be the Union, not the state or county.  Better to have incompetent officers rather than disloyal ones ).

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Females are easy to assimilate into a tribe, because traditionally they place loyalty with their new protector/provider.  And children will only be accepted if under a certain age, where they can still be adequately re-programmed into loyalty.  After a certain age, male children are “ruined” loyalty wise, nor do they have enough time to accept the new culture as normal.  This is why military recruits cannot be too old.  Not JUST because of physical stamina, but because after a certain age, you cannot brainwash them.

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Which, yes, is a bit harsh.  But ALL of us at all times in all organizations must face a certain amount of brainwashing.  To function in a tribe, or in a family for that matter, or a job, not only must the loyalty be unthinkingly granted, so must acceptance of all cultural dictates.  All these require an emotional acceptance.  Truly, logic holds no place here.  You must bond with blind faith.  You can dissect any cultural practice and deem it counterintuitive to the interests of the individual, and illogical.  That is NOT the point.  The point is that groupthink is group cohesion.  And you can only accept groupthink on an emotional level.  To put it bluntly, you need to be emotionally immature to accept group cohesion.

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Too old, and too invested in your old culture, you won’t accept the new one.  Again, this is primarily males.  Females have the chameleon ability to change their minds.  This is primarily a function of bonding with any new security provider.  Think about how an old husband suddenly becomes more worthless and weak, as she bonds with a new future husband who is really just like the old one in all things except earning potential.  This is NOT to belittle females.  This is just how they are programmed.  Just as males display a LOT of negative traits as well, this are just how we are programmed.  It isn’t a bad thing, it is just Our Thing.

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Now, it is true that Pain Is Reprogramming.  Past a certain age ( which seems to be around five ), the only way to reprogram your conditioning is to do so after a traumatic experience.  This is why the fabled Child Soldiers in Africa go though the brutality they do, and why military recruits are subjected to brainwashing techniques such as sleep deprivation, group pressure, harassment and etcetera.  That is why bullying works, despite its ugliness ( but in a village where the children are raised by all of us to be emasculated, we can’t have that! ).  Bullying is just peer pressure to conform to tribal benchmarks and practices.  That is why a bully leaves you alone if you fight back.  Not because he is a coward ( the mythmaking by the FemiNazi’s is breathtaking and must be admired on a certain level ), but because you have shown yourself capable of being a warrior.

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That is all part of group conformity.  But while you could, mostly, reprogram new tribal arrivals, historically this was not done after a certain age.  If a trend is historical it is because it works optimally.  So, obviously, the best way to get the best warriors is to have them grow up in your tribe.  So, when raiding, you’ll see all males past a certain age killed. Those young enough to be integrated successfully can become captives.  Not to say historical trends will reestablish themselves instantly.  As usual, those tribes following flawed new cultures will die off quickly and leave those accidentally following the correct ones to flourish.

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So this leaves us with the question of how quickly tribes will start excluding those historically unsuitable to join a already established tribe.  Continued tomorrow.

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