Comments on: What is an Urban Tribe?

By: MentalPolyphonics » Bowling Alone in Victoria

MentalPolyphonics » Bowling Alone in Victoria — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:42:09 +0000

[...] of the most literal urban tribes I’ve seen in Victoria are sports leagues: team mates and rivals party together, travel [...]

By: Writing is a Dead-End Job | MentalPolyphonics

Writing is a Dead-End Job | MentalPolyphonics — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:36:58 +0000

[...] Right now, novels appear to be the safest market – the market isn’t large, but most consumers pay for them. Non-fiction books have to compete with Wikipedia and the rest of the web, while people have less and less time to get deep into a topic. Besides, many non-fiction books seem to either be collections of magazine articles (eg: Malcolm Gladwell), or single magazine articles stretched to book-length with the addition of anecdotes (eg: Urban Tribes). [...]

By: About A Boy on Urban Tribes | MentalPolyphonics

About A Boy on Urban Tribes | MentalPolyphonics — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:22:52 +0000

[...] at 2:23 pm About a Boy is a story of two lone wolves, Marcus and Will, moving to build a tribe around them. This project has only started by the end of the narrative (better implied in the movie [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:14:44 +0000

@karen: Say a tribe adopts a couple into the tribe. There’s always a chance that the couple would leave, either because they have kids or for some other reason. So adopting a couple is not the optimal self-preservation behaviour of a tribe. Therefore we should expect to see that less often than breaking the couple apart.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:10:56 +0000

No kids, thank God.

You’re probably right. I’ve heard children described as “the perfect drug”… Although not by a drug user.

Drugs cause isolation, so probably represent an equal threat to family and tribe. Though I guess families are immune to kidrugs… But what would Sick Boy and Allison have to say?

By: karen

karen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:40:46 +0000

That’s because they don’t have children yet. It’s next to impossible to get boring couples out when they have an infant.

Also, did the tribe accept the new bf/gf into the tribe before the marriage? That would make a difference as the new person would already be considered to be apart of the tribe. I would think the tribe would get weakened once the boring couple pairs off.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:18:23 +0000

In our peer group “the tribe” has been known to survive marriages where “the couple pair up and only do boring couple things”.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:11:26 +0000

I have been thinking about how tribe will break up relationships. I think there are three actions a tribe will do when someone pairs up. 1. They adopt the new gf/bf into the tribe and there is no friction. 2. They do everything in their power to get rid of the new gf/bf. 3. The tribe breaks apart as the couple pair up and only do boring couple things.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:56:13 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot about that: fixed.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:29:06 +0000

Is there a number to how small or large a tribe can be? Can you have a tribe with just two or three people?