Or cats, which have colonized earth as well as humans. Or erupting volcanoes that affect weather 1000s of km away. Or New World vegetables that are now part of cuisines worldwide. Earth is a far more deeply connected place than our *political* experience of it suggests (6/few)
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tldr: Don't let shitty people with limited perspectives tell you that wanting to experience the planet as a single place is an evil thing or that their maps are the territory. (end/few)
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How can one reconcile globalism with the basic human urge to territorialize? It seems like statehood is a compromise and somewhat of an attempt to minimize territorial violence.
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I don’t think there’s a basic human urge to territorialize. The reverse in fact. We’re more nomadic than sessile.
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You don't feel a profound comfort in familiar surroundings? I recall a ribbonfarm post about how you always find a Starbucks/wifi-enabled coffee shop to work in, no matter where you go.
What if one's comforting place only has a single instantiation on the entire planet?
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I learned Starbucks-comfort as a 23 year old adult. I can easily adapt to other environments.
If someone can really can only find a sense of home in one fixed place they are probably severely dysfunctional or mentally ill.
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If someone's main epistemological mode is based on metis, then they might find it hard to adapt to living somewhere else.
e.g. if your fishing profession is enabled by a long, local narrative around breeding cycles upriver, this is not easy to adapt to other locations.
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Rather than a "main narrative", I expect it manifests more as a "choiceless" mode in meaningness terminology: you do your work because that is what you do, rather than in service of something or other.
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Yeah I think Native American place mythologies of that sort are cognitive prisons. That they were opppressed doesn’t make their mental models good. There’s good elements to it though, like mindful stewardship of your environment. That doesn’t require territoriality though.

