Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive has endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany, demanded the release of jailed U.K. anti-Islam extremist Tommy Robinson and called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer an evil tyrant who should be in prison.
The solution to this is to stop putting our faith in government and live a more localized, tribal lifestyle.
Just gonna point out the obvious - this “tribal lifestyle” you speak of would be amazing… for about 1% of the population that would be happy with a subsistence agrarian lifestyle.
For the other 99% of us it would create more problems than it solves. How do you have any form of technology whatsoever without organisation, which requires regulation, and regulators, which we call government.
tribalism noun
the state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes
the behaviour and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own tribe or social group
It doesn’t have to be a hunter-gatherer society. Focus on what’s around you instead of what’s far away. Local news. Local elections. Local businesses. Local friends.
That would work even less. Thats a breeding ground for oppression, lying, control of knowledge etc on a much bigger scale than we have today. Think the catholic church in the middle ages, or to go smaller incase of your tribalism, lords and small towns. It just wont work how you imagine it would
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Do they make antibiotics in your neighborhood?
You can still trade with other people.
The meaning of what I’m saying is to focus on problems you can affect, not ones that only affect you as much as you let them.
Slacktivists won’t like this, though.
Which tribe will run the pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and who assures they won’t put poison in it to wipe out a rival tribe?
It sounds like you mean we should focus on impacting and supporting our local communities. That is definitely something more of us should be doing.
It’s the use of the word “tribalism” that’s putting people off. That word has connotations that (I don’t believe?) you intended. To a lot of us, it’s a pejorative term that refers to the mindset of a small group that’s fiercely hostile to other groups (while only being protective to their own.) A group with a “tribalist” mindset is likely a bubble of xenophobia.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, that’s working out really well in Haiti.
I say we go back to the trees.
Yeah, well stay out of my oceans.