tribal dynamics

TRIBAL DYNAMICS
Now, I'm going to write this post and inevitably some moron who somehow managed to hold on to his loyal minion status despite being dumber than a box of rocks is going to make a comment on how I'm a redneck cracker Klucker racist. Even with the following statement: racism is merely a tribal marker to help distinguish members of a group from outsiders. Yes, I understand it might be easy for me to sit and preach, being in the white male position and never having been exposed to discrimination other than being white in Hawaii, being a white male applying to a quota system job and being male in a divorce. The most blatant forms of racism are easy to condone. We speak of ignorance, since the speaker hasn't mastered the highly educated method of hiding their true feelings. But, racism is a part of human nature. You can't change it. Tree hugging, Birkenstock wearing, Volvo driving, non-meat eating Democratic voting asshats will implore us all to just get along. They'll turn carpet muncher or enter into an inner-racial marriage ( before you throw accusations my way remember I've had two Mexican brides myself ) just to prove how enlightened they are. Just like the crude stereotypical redneck, they have no idea that playing the racist card is merely a survival trait.
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It is really quite simple. Tribes are necessary for survival. Humans can't survive on their own. You need a group. When resources start to dwindle, you need to attack a group outside your tribe and steal their supplies. If cooperation was an inherent human trait, we would have died off ages ago. Two groups, the resources will only feed one group. One group kills off the other and has enough to live. If both groups got along and shared both would die off. So, sorry Rodney, but we actually all can't get along. I don't know why Americans think they can change this dynamic. Perhaps because for three hundred years our resource base was always larger than we needed. Until a few decades ago, when we reached those limits. Now it is all downhill. We are still arguing that we might not have reached those limits and started down the other side of the supply equation, but we should be arguing over how long we have left and what we can do to survive. We were able to survive a religious and racial melting pot because of that energy surplus. Once the shortage reaches a certain point, all tribal markers will take on new significance.
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Race is not the only tribal marker. Religion is another. Customs can be one, language another. The only important thing is that the differences must be readily apparent and important to the tribes themselves. To us, the Rwanda genocide made little sense. Village and family members were fighting each other. The reasons were simple. Resource scarcity. The farm plots had been divided too many times. Each plot did not support a family. The tribal markers they used to resolve this basic life threatening conflict were only important to them. We just need to realize it is normal and will eventually happen here. Besides rising sea levels and soon to be uncontrolled mosquito based diseases, another reason I chose to leave the South ( were I enjoyed living, all things considered ) was the coming race wars. The South will be the poster child for renewed racial conflict once resources become scarce and we revert to tribal survival mode.
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Okay, enough justification for killing your neighbors. You do realize you will have to kill your neighbors, right? The tribe and outsiders are two different species. Look at Indians and how many have derivatives of The People, or True Tribe or such. Everyone outside your tribe is less than human. You have to think of them that way in order to kill them and steal their food. But, as importantly during the collapse, those that share your tribal marker but refuse to join you must also be considered outsiders. They can't be true tribal members. Oh, you can forge alliances, but they must retain that outsider status for some time in the future when you must go to war for their supplies. And, when forming the tribe you need members, not just allies. Sometimes neighbors must be forcibly assimilated or eliminated ( kind of like the Borg ).
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Once the tribe has formed, the necessary norms adopted for survival must be enforced. This is were shunning comes into play. We look at Amish shunning reluctant members as an oddity. We feel sorry for the shunned because they want to be more like us. And we laugh at the sanctions because it seems dd to us the society they are being forced to leave. But we don't understand tribes. We don't realise that in historic times casting out a member might mean death to the shunned. It was a punishment. You don't have to worry about free riders in a tribe because they are afraid of being kicked out. Why do you think people put up with weird customs we think are barbaric, such as stoning an adulterous wife? Those customs work for that tribe, and those customs are considered normal. And because not following them means giving up the lifeline of that tribe. To leave is death.
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So, to summarize. Hate all outsiders. It doesn't have to be marked just by skin color but by religion or language or any other accepted marker. Tribal splintering is normal in an energy scarce environment. Belonging to a tribe ensures survival. Fear of banishment forces compliance and avoids the Tragedy Of The Commons. Forming tribes is easy, just kill all those that won't join.
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