npub1a9…9mqqg on Nostr: npub1ugly4…kyvd7 from an amateur anthropologist perspective, I think the most ...
npub1ugly4qdf0h323qvmepxa2msemal32h6en5u43gr7llfmuksmrfaqtkyvd7 (npub1ugl…yvd7) from an amateur anthropologist perspective, I think the most common approach is eviction, ie, you kick em out and leave them to fend for themselves, but that only works well in low-population type scenarios where they can't just go and join someone else's group. I'm thinking of the scenarios where being on your own is a death sentence because you're out in nature without a crew.
But I have a suspicion that this probably didn't happen too too often because people would have grown up in small groups with very strong culture, and would have been taught the importance (literally "your life depends on it") of respecting women, listening to the elders, etc. And since they were growing up living with the land, they would've been keenly aware of the razor thin margin between life and death and the importance of not getting cast out to be on your own.
So, all that being said, we are nowhere near those kinds of conditions here in the USA. Most people have no idea how to collaborate honorably (ie, not taking advantage of others or being lazy or whatever) and like you said with the crying girl, we have a lot of deeply broken people, and only the very rare individual in an anarchist type community wants to take on the work of being responsible for someone like that... basically taking that person under their wing and putting them to work, being their person, helping them become a good member of the community. We don't have that for broken women and we don't have that for broken men (men who are violent, defensive, lazy, whatever) either. Ask anyone who's ever tried to "take on" a person like that, and they'll probably tell you that that person ended up burning their house down or something.
Anyway, I have no answers. We are dealing with a population of very broken people who for the most part are not capable of being in anarchist community, even if they kind of want to. And that's even before looking at the lack of practical, useful skills, you know?
I don't think gulags are the only answer,but I think it'll be more like "parable of the sower" rather than "small migratory groups of the past".
But I have a suspicion that this probably didn't happen too too often because people would have grown up in small groups with very strong culture, and would have been taught the importance (literally "your life depends on it") of respecting women, listening to the elders, etc. And since they were growing up living with the land, they would've been keenly aware of the razor thin margin between life and death and the importance of not getting cast out to be on your own.
So, all that being said, we are nowhere near those kinds of conditions here in the USA. Most people have no idea how to collaborate honorably (ie, not taking advantage of others or being lazy or whatever) and like you said with the crying girl, we have a lot of deeply broken people, and only the very rare individual in an anarchist type community wants to take on the work of being responsible for someone like that... basically taking that person under their wing and putting them to work, being their person, helping them become a good member of the community. We don't have that for broken women and we don't have that for broken men (men who are violent, defensive, lazy, whatever) either. Ask anyone who's ever tried to "take on" a person like that, and they'll probably tell you that that person ended up burning their house down or something.
Anyway, I have no answers. We are dealing with a population of very broken people who for the most part are not capable of being in anarchist community, even if they kind of want to. And that's even before looking at the lack of practical, useful skills, you know?
I don't think gulags are the only answer,but I think it'll be more like "parable of the sower" rather than "small migratory groups of the past".