no. i think we all are searching for our tribe. that explains cliques, clubs, country clubs, churches, even play dates for toddlers and sororities/frats--we've shut ourselves up in nuclear families, which seems to be an incredibly lonely existence in many ways. All the people who talk about college dorm life or the Army as the best time in their lives--it's often the communal, tribal aspects of daily life they talk about.
It's Friday night, I'm alone and online, spent less than an hour all day talking with/relating to other adults in any way (well, except for a couple phone calls--they maybe totalled another 30 minutes.) Spent more time than that with one daughter, but otherwise....alone. If a tribe were structured well, I could be alone as I wanted/needed, but it'd be a choice, not the default.
Could go on, but you get the idea. I just think that people think "tribe" and image smelly teepees or chaotic social structure (Woodstock-imagery, maybe?) and don't see ways it could work in a modern context. People are looking for their tribe, but they don't know it.
You're an anomoly, a voice crying in the wilderness, but only because you can put a name to the quest.
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no. i think we all are searching for our tribe. that explains cliques, clubs, country clubs, churches, even play dates for toddlers and sororities/frats--we've shut ourselves up in nuclear families, which seems to be an incredibly lonely existence in many ways. All the people who talk about college dorm life or the Army as the best time in their lives--it's often the communal, tribal aspects of daily life they talk about.
It's Friday night, I'm alone and online, spent less than an hour all day talking with/relating to other adults in any way (well, except for a couple phone calls--they maybe totalled another 30 minutes.) Spent more time than that with one daughter, but otherwise....alone. If a tribe were structured well, I could be alone as I wanted/needed, but it'd be a choice, not the default.
Could go on, but you get the idea. I just think that people think "tribe" and image smelly teepees or chaotic social structure (Woodstock-imagery, maybe?) and don't see ways it could work in a modern context. People are looking for their tribe, but they don't know it.
You're an anomoly, a voice crying in the wilderness, but only because you can put a name to the quest.
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