NoMadYesHappy said:
There's a book called "After the Ice" (don't recall the author) that describes neolithic tribal dynamics after the last ice age. It [the book] has a lot of "stuff" to say, but among the biggest take-aways I had was that members of the tribe provided according to their skills, and consumed according to their LACK of skills ... in essence, trade.
What a great way to put it!!
That's exactly right!
I really think we would work best in a tribe, based upon intelligence rather than dogma. A meritocracy. Those that clearly know the most are the leaders. Intelligent living which means sustainable which means fun. The quicker and easier we can meet our needs, the more we can obtain and play with "wants".
Look at how many people think of camping as a vacation. They spend money to leave civilization in order to live a simple life in nature for a few days or weeks. That SCREAMS the TRUTH that so-called "civilized living" is NOT sustainable but done by force.
The force might be the alarm clock telling me to forget about sleeping, time to get up and go to work. Etc...
It seems that society has shifted too much into systematic living and to make these systems work, it requires obedience to the dogma of the system. And every country, state, and city is a system. Every religion is a system. And the financial system, etc... Systems everywhere.
The real system is our authentic nature, to seek to do what we truly ENJOY doing! And with a large enough tribe, someone will love to cook, someone will love to be a school teacher, someone will love to be a carpenter, someone will love to be a mechanic, someone will love to be an artist and so on.
A city pretends to be a tribe. A nation pretends to be a tribe. A religion pretends to be a tribe. A labor union pretends to be a tribe. But none of them are because these systems are forced upon the children who get indoctrinated into the system and punished for being a heretic as though the system is infallible.
No, we need a tribe that is focused on what is KNOWN to work and forced obedience to a system is a cult or worse regardless of any pretty names or platitudes we give it.
So Bob is an outstanding tribal leader and the internet makes it possible for the tribe to be scattered and for the tribe to find each other. And technology also allows us to go back to a simple life without necessarily having a life of labor, such as having solar to power appliances and tools. There's no need to labor all day when we have tech to be the labor.
To be free means in part to shed these systems. Keep the tech but let go of the system as much as possible.
