Tribal Protocol
Rules and Etiquette for the Innangardh
Rebuilding your tribe means rebuilding its etiquette and protocols. How you treat and do business with your Innangardh is different than how you should do treat and do business with the Utangardh. The modern world has laws for citizens, policies for employees, and terms of service for users. It has contracts enforced by courts and social norms enforced by shame. What it doesn’t have is a framework for people who choose to build something together outside its structure because it actively suppresses anyone who tries.
This is that framework. Not a manifesto, not a political platform. A practical guide for people who’ve decided to stop relying on the Empire of Nothing and start relying on each other, or at least would like to. Specifics are left up to you and your tribe, its your life, your tribe your shared beliefs. Its you and yours decision on whats acceptable for your interactions with each other.
Not a Nation, A Tribe
This is not a blueprint for running a country. It cannot be, Dunbar’s number makes that clear, and I don’t believe the answers lie there anymore. For the foreseeable future anyway.
Humans can only maintain roughly 150 stable relationships. Beyond that, social bonds thin, accountability dissolves, you stop knowing the people you’re interacting with. They stop being individuals and become statistics. Any system that tries to apply tribal principles at scale will collapse under its own weight. The socialist tribe works because everyone knows everyone and they care and carry their own weight. The elder council works because they can look the accused in the eye and they have been a part of the group longer than most. The shared resources work because free loaders are visible and consequences are personal.
Scale that to a city, state, or nation and it disintegrates. You can’t have tribal loyalty among 330 million strangers. You can’t pool resources when half the contributors suspect the other half of exploitation. The Golden Rule works in a tribe. Treat others as you want to be treated. Why? Because you’ll see them again. Because they have standing in your world. Because if you wrong them, their family knows your family. Because the cost of being asshole is real and immediate.
The Golden Rule fails in society at large. You cut someone off in traffic, you’ll never see them again. You cheat a stranger, there’s no social consequence. You have no loyalty to them and they have none for you. You break an oath in a city of millions, no one cares enough to deal with it. The Empire runs on this set up as it makes everyone dependent on its companies and systems.
This is why the nation-state cannot function as a tribe, it’s just too big, to many beliefs, to geographically and culturally different from area to area. The bonds are too thin, usually only being geographic location. Any attempt to impose tribal solidarity at national scales becomes either tyranny or a farce, usually both.
The tribe is the answer for your people. Not for everyone’s people. Your obligation is to your Innangardh that’s it. Let other tribes take care of their own. The decentralization you build within your tribe should extend outward. Each tribe sovereign. Each tribe self-determining. Cooperation between tribes when interests align. Distance when they don’t. “social safety nets” should be built at the tribal level not national level. The latter as we’ve see only breeds fraud and misuse, they should be discontinued altogether not limped along by stealing more and more of the peoples money.
