Wednesday, September 2, 2015

clans 3 of 3


CLANS 3 of 3

Clans are merely nations on a much smaller and decentralized scale, with the difference being that its members are all part of the military ( and with far more individual rights outside the military arena ).  And gangs are mostly just clans surviving within a nation state.  Even more decentralized, but following the same basic pattern of governance.  When we look at gangs we show fear and loathing.  Just look at the standard treatment of evil gangs after the Apocalypse in collapse/survivalism fiction.  In effect, these authors are portraying the clan as evil and the nation state as good, although I’d venture to guess they don’t look at it that way as their trees get in the way of the forest.  The nation state is, at its most basic, a tax on production to support a standing professional army.  With clans, the tax is not part of your production but rather the necessity to serve militarily ( differences such as rule of law and blood feuds are little more than the difference between the rule by kings and the rule by the militia ).  Citizens of the king think their way is great as it keeps them relatively safe, if not free.  They have traded freedom for security.  Clansmen ( or gangsmen ) look at their way as great, trading peace for independence.  You can’t judge one from the shoes of the other.  And with gangs, when you judge them from the point of view of a safe and secure debt slave living in suburbia, you miss the point of their independence.  Yes, their lives can end suddenly in blood and violence.  But the lives they live are more free.  It is the same as keeping your cat indoors, safe and bored, or letting her roam free and happy, soon to be eaten by feral dogs or coyotes.  That is the difference between citizens and gang members.

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The reason gangs seem so dangerous is because while generally behaving themselves out of self preservation, at times their violence can reach innocent citizens.  But that violence is certainly not as arbitrary as we make it out to be.  Gangs are tribes and tribes have two sets of behaviors.  One for fellow tribesmen and one for outsiders, who includes everyone else.  Citizens on the other hand, try to treat everyone the same, as fellow sheep protected by the shepherd.  The more liberal they are in political orientation, the closer to that model they adhere ( little brown people have just as many rights as Americans, etc. ) and the more course and conservative the more they adhere to the tribal labels but on a nation state level ( Americans are great, kill everyone else ).  Gangs just hate everyone not of their tribe and joining and staying in that tribe is much more work and sacrifice than a citizen who is just lucky where he was born ( or unlucky ).

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You think “jumping in” a gang member is unnecessarily violent ( earning their membership by, for instance, killing a rival gang member )?  It is nothing more than one proving themselves worthy of membership, the only option since they were not born and raised by the gang.  If every man must be a warrior, they must prove their combat effectiveness.  Which is why joining the armed forces does not make you a warrior.  Think gangs being violent towards women and civilians is uncivilized?  Not by the justice system of the gang, which is a strict black and white, us and them version of friends and enemies.  It is nothing more than a return to the historical norm where villages were raided and women were used as forced breeding using outside DNA ( again, species level positives can always be individuals negatives ), or killed, and children were sold into slavery or killed, and elders were usually just killed ( less mouths to feed ).  Fictionalized post-apocalypse gang behavior is really just the behavior all of us will adapt once the Dark Age we are entering decentralizes political organization and energy is so scarce there can be no more professional armies.

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9 comments:

  1. Gangs do not always have to war with each other and outsiders. Alliances of gangs with converging interests happen. According to the law any group of 3 or more can be considered a gang. Yes the gun club. The Lions club, Shriners, etc. are - by law and some sociologists definitions- "gangs".
    Obviously when the Shriners and the Gun club get together to raise money for charity the gangs are working together to the betterment of the greater community. The Crips and MS13 can -and do- perform the same sorts of services in their 'hoods and cities, they just commit more criminal and violent acts more frequently than the more accepted 'clubs'.
    Club membership is a helpful thing when you move to a smaller community, belonging to multiple clubs will make you more a part of the community. And when the community has to become more tribal you are already a member of the tribe.

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    1. Just don't confuse the benign $10 a month membership requirement with todays social club with far more harsher requirements of tomorrows tribe.

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    2. Absolutely. But if you do more than pay $ dues you will show a willingness to be part of the tribe/community. Help a fellow club member with a jump start, loan a lawn mower, or shovel the new widowers sidewalk, etc. Don't do so much that you are the go to guy for everything, but a little bit here and there means when the tribe solidifies after the collapse they will treat you at least as well as the average member.

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  2. Interesting article, Your High Hairedness. It made me chew on some mental meat for a while. As a theory I think you're concept of tribal behavior is sound but, there is a more complex element that throws a bit of a monkey wrench into it.

    John Adams said, ""We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

    He recognized that individual morality was the only basis for a functional free society. Even gangs are forced to adhere to certain ethical codes. If someone holds to the "live and let live" philosophy it doesn't necessarily mean he's just weak and will be conquered by the first clan that comes along. His reasoning may just be that as long as he's left alone he won't turn violent but, if provoked he would retaliate with deadly force.

    I guess what I'm getting at is that a clan doesn't have to be strictly offensive to be powerful enough to protect it's members. Was it FDR that walked softly and carried a big stick?

    -Novice

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    1. Teddy used that line, but was also one of our worst colonial enthusiasts.

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  3. Once again, a trip to harsh reality. Afraid your readership was getting too big? Nobody likes to hear this stuff, no matter how true it might be.

    Things get interesting when the state monopoly on violence gets overrun by gang violence. Then the sheep start to reconsider their deal with government.

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    1. In a lot of countries gangs cohabitate with states. They fill a needed niche of protection and services which the government has dropped. Course, the citizens pay twice, but at least they are safe from crime, etc.

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  4. This blog sucks! I don't want to hear about harsh reality! I want to be constantly reassured that my AR15 and MREs will always make me victorious over those nasty MZBs.

    Nope, no more Bison Blog for me. It's time to crawl back into the womb where the reader-supplied articles and those ads for freeze-dried happy nuggets will calm my soul and ease my mind...

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    1. Freeze dried happy nuggets is a pretty accurate description of tainted meat flavored soy crumbs. Like the sarcasm-keep it up! :)

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