Hedonism seems vapid when alone. I believe that sociality can be a fun multiplier (including multiplying by 0). But I could have doubled down on vidya and anime.
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Looping back, with permission: how are the traits one seeks in a pack different than what one seeks in a troop? Both depend on built environment.
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What I'd danced around above was that all these layers serve to mold one's self in different ways. What would a self look like without any group smaller than a tribe?
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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.
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I recall my time in the normie-sphere as a joyous high. We'd float through time, secure and together, content even in failure.
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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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Imagined communities are the intersection of conflicting tribal histories that only agree on one thing: that they are “about” the same thing, like “America”. That thing is the IC. A tribe’s mission is to monopolize an IC and dehumanize and eliminate competing tribes.
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I see, so someone who rejects common ideologies but still (somehow?) cares about "America" in abstract would be part of the IC but not a tribe?
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Not sure such a person exists but if they did, yeah. ICs supervene on tribes so being in an IC without being in a tribe is an unstable degenerate state. You’d join *some* tribe or end up mentally ill or something. Hikkikomori etc.
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