Saved by Stuart Evans
1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography.
Everyone just belongs to small cults now. Different flavors for everyone, run club cults, chess club cults, longevity qualification of self cults, yoga therapy on rooftops cults, etc.
IRL micro cults are like a third order post-pandemic ripple effect.
Michael J. Miraflorx.comI feel we're all slowly coalescing towards some kind of increasingly complex state of memetic symbiosis. That we're in the process of forming a thriving web of sensemakers, meta-theorists and systems poets who are all increasingly connected to communities of like minds in our bioregions and simultaneously attuned to a global network of shared... See more
Joe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
One of the core needs of humans is a sense of belonging. For centuries, religion, our tribes, our communities, our families have given us that sense, but modern culture, catalyzed by the internet, has broken down a lot of these connective tissues. And so we look desperately for other places for belonging, places where we can participate in some... See more