In the ribbonfarm post, 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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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: medium.com/intellectual-e
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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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Oh no please speculate 🙂
Interesting to see others figure out where I’m headed. Maybe you’ll figure it out more elegantly than me.

