An example of a "tribe self" is the self presented by most bluechecks. Most have ideologies as primary features, before communities or friends.
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What aspects of yourself are shaped by your tribe? Politics, philosophy. Your troop? Hobbies, "local physical culture", jobs, lifestyle. Your pack? The significance of day to day details of your life, the overlay of *meaning* and motive.
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What do normies, with regular packs, tweet about? Little jokes, their day, back and forths with friends.
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Little jokes? Seemingly banal tweets about one's day? This is the stuff of *meaning*: the significance of one's daily activities is modulated and *elevated* by their pack!
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This feeling of heightened everyday meaning via intimate pack is what I attempted to capture here.https://mobile.twitter.com/simpolism/status/1027988446218993664 …
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Move up a level from the pack. People who most identify with their troop are concerned with local affairs, hobby-posting, job-posting, etc. This is still considered reasonably normal.
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The distinction between imagined community and tribe is not entirely clear to me, so I'll refrain from trying to exactly disambiguate. But move further up and you get into ideology, politics, philosophy: discussions which cannot conclude. This is most of "toxic Twitter".
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But the problem for many of us is how to "move back down". When you grapple with issues of ideology and philosophy, oh how banal one's hobbies and life can feel!
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There is a feeling of power when one engages in large scale dialectics, topics that affect larger groups. It can be intoxicating.
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The problem is that playing large-scale language games means tradeoffs. Few win at all, winning is mostly zero-sum, and winners often have their messages distorted and abused. Such is the cost of mythological transcendence!
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What's the definition of "winning" in this context? Becoming widely regarded as successful by your tribe. Becoming leader of the tribe? Becoming a legendary figure via some heroic contribution to the tribe's success?
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Replying to @Serotophile
Winning in this case is having one's ideas (and by extension one's self) enter the tribal mythology.
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