That sounds like quite a mouthful but what does it mean? You'll see as we get further along. If you've been following for awhile, you probably know that I have a vision of a very different world than the one we now live on the surface of. Oh, make no mistake, it will still be the same planet you live on, with the seven continents and oceans and all that.
There will still likely be politics, wars and ambitious people striving for power. But what will change is social interaction. People will stop poisoning the air around them with their contagious negative attitudes. We will accept one another as brothers and not as strangers to be feared and mistrusted. Just as Dr Martin Luther King died before his dream was fully realized, I do not expect to be alive when the work is through. That is not because I expect to die anytime soon, but instead because of just how much there is to do.
Now, there are many different kinds of social groupings with many different monikers. After a long and thorough series of thoughtful hours upon the matter I have decided that group, organization, mob, army, family, club, community, society and company, for various different reasons, all do not really work to describe the intended type of mindset and plans that I have. All of them have elements of what is desired, just not the whole package. Family and community were very close though.
And as it happens, I was listening to a network marketing presentation recently. The speaker mentioned the word tribe and started to describe all of the meanings and ramifications of the word. At that moment, all the thoughts I had been having about the social grouping that I am creating, screamed out at me "that is the word. There is no better description"
See, the native American Indians called their communities tribes. It is a word that implies togetherness, community and family. Not everyone in a tribe is an immediate blood relative but they are all still family. They follow the same philosophies and live their lives by the same rules. An outsider cannot attack one member of the tribe without incurring the wrath of the whole society. They protect their own.
While the Native Americans were hunter gatherers, they still mostly stayed in one area and only met with members of neighboring tribes when they happened to cross paths. Sometimes their area of influence would increase through inter-tribal marriage or war. But for the most part it was static. The area they could affect with their philosophies and ideas was limited quite literally to where they lived.
My original idea was to start with myself, to spend time and energy forming myself into the kind of person that I thought people should be like. Then to form a household of like minded people and then to gradually grow a larger and larger community, first by getting a bigger house and then maybe getting another house close by or an apartment building or two. With the idea being to continue expanding until the growth in one area became explosive.
For the most part, I am the way I feel people should be. I am still not perfect. The journey is never-ending, but the corrections and adjustments to my way of being are smaller. For me, now it is more about fine tuning than massive change. Simply because it has come up several times before, I want to make it clear that I do not think people should be clones of me or do exactly what I say and do. But it is natural that people using the same general lines of logic will come to the same conclusions and take many of the same actions.
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