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[mankoeponymous]

Once upon a time, for about a million years or so, we were Tribal. (Now we're NOT. Wait.) Tribal meant (and in some places still means) being born into a monoculture; there is one cuisine, there is one kind of music, there is one set of dance moves, there is one set of beliefs, one memeset. And, in most cases, one would live out an entire

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[hobbitkicker]

Yowsers! That was amazing to read! Thanks for posting this. It is very relevant to a lot of processing I have been doing lately. Very timely! Thanks.

[mankoeponymous]

Yay! Hi!

[hobbitkicker]

Hi! :)

I am still processing a lot about tribalism. A long term friendship of mine just terminated because a long standing meme just crashed and burned in the new wind tunnel I have built this year. I am still analyzing the data on this one so many thoughts I have tribalism are half baked and not very coherent. I will say that I am amazed at how powerful the fear of tribal ousting is, took me a long time to see how much it controls us, even to the point of maintaining toxic relationships.

While processing, I think the new meme in my wind tunnel under going tests is trying to get my free will to shut the hell up and get out of the way so I can let creativity just flow and I am just a vessel. The two seem to always be at each other's throats.

[mankoeponymous]

Let's meet up and talk!

[dhairya]

Manko, I really love this post...your writings always make me think...should have something soon when I have had some time to sit with this for a bit...and am not at work so I can give it proper attention.

[mankoeponymous]

Yay! Thanks!