But now I recognize that in a time of climatic catastrophe I require more. Much more.
A tribe, in fact. The only question now is how to make that work.
I started by sharing this realization with my husband of 23 years. He was a little shocked, but I asked simply, "Do you want to be the man who hunts for moose, shoots them dead with no help from Sarah Palin's heliocopter, and then skins them?"
"No," he admitted. "I'd rather not be that man."
"Okay," I said, "I'll find one of those. Now, how about shooting people? I doubt you want to be the man who stands out at the edge and shoots marauders to protect me?"
Much to my surprise, he said: "I would do that!"
Really? Twenty-two years of marriage and I never knew!
So, now that I know that I have my own personal National Guard (apparently he's even had weapons training!) I can focus my attention on hunters, gatherers, healers and engineers.
The question is, what else do I need to complete my tribe, and how shall I break them in to do my bidding?
2 comments:
I have read your article "A Man for All Things" and i can tell you have a big concern as my family and i do!! What is going on? Do people not see the drastic changes to our earth or are they blinded by there every day obsessions. I do not know but i and a lot of others in Wisconsin will be as ready as we can be. Would love to talk to other that have a concern and or a feeling something is coming soon please E-mail me at becky350@live.com. And who wrote this article plse e-mail me and let us talk. We can help each other. thankyou
You just unwittingly stumbled onto exogamous matriarchies, what is now widely believed by many anthropologists to be the structure of neanderthal societies.
In Neanderthal tribes, men were faithful and the women slept around. This worked amazingly well in an Ice Age and kept them thriving for a half a million years.
Women also got to choose their studs more directly, which ended up improving the male breed substantially. You could say that where Homo Sapiens goes for the "bad boys," Neo girls chose the "good boys" and that's what they got. Ripped, muscular geniuses with the virtues of boy scouts.
Neanderthals just plain worked right, period.
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