Tribalism: A Way of Life whose Time Has Come
It seems likely that various forms of collapse are in our near future—nuclear war, global overheating, ocean flooding, political dysfunction, civil war, pandemics, the “Great Unraveling”—and that behooves us to contemplate ways of surviving, whether as individuals, families, or groups. Survival, of course, may not be possible, but it would seem wise to hope that it is possible and to prepare for it.
There are professional survivalists among us already, of course, those people who have laid up emergency food kits and built bunkers and such—maybe 150 million according to one survey–and as many as 74 million preppers, those who have made simple preparations to weather a storm or power outage. Those are largely individualists, preparing for themselves and their families, and the serious ones are mostly aiming for self-sufficiency, uninterested in friends, neighbors, or what polity might surround them.
It is the rest of the world I’m concerned with.
For nearly 2 million years the human animal lived in small communities, cojoining extended families, dependent on each other for mutual survival, nomadic, scavenging and foraging, with common property and shared resources, non-hierarchical, with political and economic self-sufficiency. Anthropolog
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