To choose ostracism for the sake of a friend is romantic, but the pragmatic choice is to participate in ostracizing them.
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The hope in ostracizing one's friend is that, although they lose a pack-mate, another from the troop will replace them.
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In the ribbonfarm post,
@vgr claims packs are "the grouping we use to navigate physical reality at a day-to-day, episodic level", while troops are with whom we "navigate multi-generational biological, life-scale reality".1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
so, when I say "my pack", I mean "my set of close friends with whom I share an experience of day to day reality"
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I now realize that most people (young urbanites, at least) do not maintain friendships via pack beyond college. They are replaced by relationships.
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Many people's troop, as well as their pack, tends to dilute after college, as circles disperse throughout the world.
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Disrupt packs and troops, and what remains are tribes: disparate enough to find anywhere, but too weak to meet one's social needs.
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The good news is that if one is alienated from a tribe, they can often join another. And there are more tribes than ever, see: https://medium.com/intellectual-explorers-club/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb …
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So, did I ever find a replacement pack member? No. Packs are contingent on different features than tribes. There was no suitable replacement.
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We might define atomization as this state, of "lacking a persistent intimate pack".
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Heh you’re anticipating things in future parts of series
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Replying to @simpolism
Oh no please speculate
Interesting to see others figure out where I’m headed. Maybe you’ll figure it out more elegantly than me.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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