Thursday, May 5, 2016

Lotta People, Lotta Glass

Cities hold a lotta people we don't want to meet and a lotta glass we would love to break ... but this doesn't make us any different from any man jack on the planet.  We're nervous in the cities all the time.  This is not my tribe, where are my people.

We make mini-tribes with our families and they're good.  We know these people, who they are, the crazy crap they do, and all the things which make it ok.  Whatever comes, we can probably deal with it.

Then we start looking for the rest of our tribe but they usually are not around and our own mini-tribes drift apart due to the nature of the modern world.  So we keep looking and maybe you start pursuing genealogical research to find the rest of the tribe ... but ... you never really find it, do you.  Yevette has done immense family research which goes back before the Civil War and I'm not sure beyond that but she can rattle off details without any evident limit.   But ... that finds some tribal history but it doesn't really find the tribe.  Queen Bee has done that to some extent with the Fraser / Soper lines.

The Scottish clans hold tight to their tribes and they do fairly well with it since your name is your badge, in effect, and that will be known across Scotland.  Something obvious to anyone visiting there is the weather may be some of the most miserable anywhere ... but ... the Scots have no interest in leaving their tribes, they just will not do it.  Throughout human history, we would do just about anything for our tribes and humans are filled with loyalty ... but ... right now people really aren't sure what to do with it.

You can see the search for tribes all over Facebook in which it's common for people to try to fool themselves with thousands of virtual 'friends,' most of whom they don't even know, and if that's not trying to make a tribe when you can't find one, what would be your word for it?

Figure the bitch for a black guy because it's worse for him and it's the same for Indians, to some extent:  you guys are from the same tribe, right?

Yah, all of Africa was one  tribe.  There were well over two thousand tribes in Australia alone.  So, sure, black guys all come from the same tribe.

Black people are just as lost as white people for this.  Where is my tribe, where is my tribe?


Here at the Rockhouse we're loners and always have been but that's ok.  Every tribe has its shaman or people who sit facing backward on their horses; tribes understand such things.  The city tries to homogenize them.  So, the people have a lotta people we don't wanna see and a whole lot of glass we would dearly love to break.  The city doesn't make tribes, it destroys them.

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