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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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".

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    2. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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      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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    3. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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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    4. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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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    5. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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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    6. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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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    7. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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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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    8. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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      We might define atomization as this state, of "lacking a persistent intimate pack".

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2018
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      Heh you’re anticipating things in future parts of series

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    10. @simpolism‏ @simpolism 13 Oct 2018
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      aw crap, I'll try and keep it personal

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2018
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      Oh no please speculate 🙂 Interesting to see others figure out where I’m headed. Maybe you’ll figure it out more elegantly than me.

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