Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World
our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Governments and organisations that arise out of the Subject Story are paternalistic and hierarchical, with the inherently superior few at the top of the pyramid. In light of this story coming before, it is little wonder that the Consumer felt like a breath of fresh air.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Instead of a holistic and intersectional approach, entrenched in the ability to tap into collective support structures as a form of personal resilience, healing is depoliticised and rendered a singular and individual trauma chronically dependent on a capitalist and extractivist commercialisation of Indigenous knowledge (Yoga, Ayahuasca, herbal medi... See more
Leil Zahra Mortada • Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe
However, as most anthropologists will attest, humans are wired to live in curated collectives, as opposed to mass societies. So people formed new tribes within a larger society in order to find a “place” where they belonged. The French sociologist Michel Maffesoli referred to these new tribes as “neotribes.” The behavioral patterns within these neo
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