careinke wrote:
In regards to more tribalism, I certainly hope so!
People need to take care of themselves and their kids first, then expand outward from the family to extended family, neighbors and friends, after that consider helping others in areas you are skilled in or maybe trading with some one who is better skilled in certain things. Keeping things tight also quickly identifies the slackers and takers, who can be easily dealt with.
That said, I support a large UBI (Twice the poverty level) which is socialist, and I had been against. )
The tribalism we see today is fake tribalism, born of social media , the media in general, and everyone behind their digital screen typing words that produce ZERO in terms of the tribalism you are advocating. This fake tribalism is digital, anti community, anti organic, is mainly about grievances and deconstruction rather than adding any of the cohesive elements of tribalism you are advocating. Just look at the vast number of posts on this site and seriously, ask yourself, do all these diatribes of institutional criticisms add up to anything at all?
In fact, years ago those of us at the stage of analyzing the big picture of ecological, economic, political dysfunction were somewhat on the vanguard. Go back 15 years and read the posts here on this site. What has happened in the meantime? Nothing really, it is just that the rest of society has now also joined the bantering and whining and digital tribal deconstruction game. We are not special here anymore. we have become the very definition of ordinary, coming on this site and bashing one party or the other while we sit in the anonymity of our digital screens.
This is everything the opposite of what you state about supporting tribalism. There is nothing organic about this, nothing cohesive, nothing that strengthens relations between neighbors. It is also not agorist in the deeper sense of this philosophy you support.
The last week I was involved in that national park event and two days ago at the local community school here all the coffee growers were invited by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture to discuss the protocols of bio security during times of COvid19 with the upcoming coffee harvest requiring all us coffee growers to house temporarily migrant indigenous workers. How to control the spread of the virus, what protocols we have to set up, doctors giving speaches, all these farmers in the room asking questions, one of the police set up several months ago a Whatsapp group chat for all agriculture growers so that we can as a group communicate issues and urgencies that come up. This police officer gave a speach, I have already been a member of this group since a couple of months and many growers joined to increase communication since we are all in remote locations. Anyway, I left that meeting, some of it was beuracratic bullshit, some of it useful, but after the meeting I went to this coffee shop where this Expat from the US who I have known for years was sitting by himself and streaming some video about the new world order and how Covid was all fake and he was deeply immersed in the conspiracy. This guy lives here mostly alone, he is not integrated in the fabric of this rural agricultural community, his whole entire social world has become digital and coming to this cafe and sticking his head in his computer is about as organic as he can manage in terms of social interaction.
Sound familiar?
Well, the political tribalism today in America is actually the thinnest veneer as it is no thicker than that digital screen that is in front of your face right now as you read this.
That is all you really need to know.