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Post: 150 People Max
The more I contemplate the fractures in modern society, the more I believe that the path forward requires turning away from massive, impersonal collectives and returning to smaller ones. I am drawn to a specific figure: 150. This is the estimated number of people who can live together under a social contract before it begins to bend and break. I first encountered this concept in Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, a book that remains a staple on my shelf today.
This threshold is known as Dunbar’s number, named after anthropologist Robin Dunbar. He theorized that humans can only comfortably maintain stable social relationships with approximately 150 people. This isn’t just a guess; it is backed by neurology and real-world evidence. Historical hunter-gatherer societies, modern military sub-units, and effective corporate departments frequently cluster around this size. Even in the age of social media, where we can follow thousands, our meaningful interactions still cap out at around the 150-person mark.
Consider the implications for a moment. Science suggests a person can only truly recognize about 500 people—the kind of recognition you have for someone you drive past every day but don’t know personally. If our brains are biologically limited to conceptualizing relationships 150 times over, how can we expect to make informed political decisions that affect millions? When the scale of government exceeds our cognitive capacity for community, the sense of mutual accountability vanishes.
This suggests a profound need for a societal shift toward “mini-collectivism.” By prioritizing local governance over centralized giants, we return to a scale where the social contract is enforceable through actual relationships rather than rigid, bureaucratic hierarchies. While it raises questions about how a globalized world would function without formalized large-scale governments, the current model’s failure to maintain social cohesion cannot be ignored.
There is something essential in this limitation. I’d love to hear your thoughts—please comment below if you think we can ever truly scale community beyond our biology.
#150 #anthropology #life #mentalHealth #philosophy #post #relationships #RobinDunbar #SebastianJunger #tribal #tribe #tribes #writing -
Post: 150 People Max
The more I contemplate the fractures in modern society, the more I believe that the path forward requires turning away from massive, impersonal collectives and returning to smaller ones. I am drawn to a specific figure: 150. This is the estimated number of people who can live together under a social contract before it begins to bend and break. I first encountered this concept in Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, a book that remains a staple on my shelf today.
This threshold is known as Dunbar’s number, named after anthropologist Robin Dunbar. He theorized that humans can only comfortably maintain stable social relationships with approximately 150 people. This isn’t just a guess; it is backed by neurology and real-world evidence. Historical hunter-gatherer societies, modern military sub-units, and effective corporate departments frequently cluster around this size. Even in the age of social media, where we can follow thousands, our meaningful interactions still cap out at around the 150-person mark.
Consider the implications for a moment. Science suggests a person can only truly recognize about 500 people—the kind of recognition you have for someone you drive past every day but don’t know personally. If our brains are biologically limited to conceptualizing relationships 150 times over, how can we expect to make informed political decisions that affect millions? When the scale of government exceeds our cognitive capacity for community, the sense of mutual accountability vanishes.
This suggests a profound need for a societal shift toward “mini-collectivism.” By prioritizing local governance over centralized giants, we return to a scale where the social contract is enforceable through actual relationships rather than rigid, bureaucratic hierarchies. While it raises questions about how a globalized world would function without formalized large-scale governments, the current model’s failure to maintain social cohesion cannot be ignored.
There is something essential in this limitation. I’d love to hear your thoughts—please comment below if you think we can ever truly scale community beyond our biology.
#150 #anthropology #life #mentalHealth #philosophy #post #relationships #RobinDunbar #SebastianJunger #tribal #tribe #tribes #writing -
@elsua54 That "tribe" you keep mentioning doesn't exist or isn't like a peice of wood somewhere I can just go find.
It's individuals keeping it alive much like a #individual #samurai keeps it alive - and frankly samurai's are all but dead as a bred species.
Like #Animals and #humans pushed out by cutting their #trees, concreting, asphalting it all - #tribes do not exist much.
Try not to think of my species as common like #Mastodon's #Tech & #Caturday core.
Strong #principles #morals = rare.
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@elsua54 That "tribe" you keep mentioning doesn't exist or isn't like a peice of wood somewhere I can just go find.
It's individuals keeping it alive much like a #individual #samurai keeps it alive - and frankly samurai's are all but dead as a bred species.
Like @Animals and @humans pushed out by cutting their trees, concreting, asphalting it all - #tribes do not exist much.
Try not to think of my species of principles / morals like #Mastodon's main #Tech & #Caturday core. It's not the same.
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Tribes: Glasgow Pride 2026 Edition
#Photography #StreetPhotography #GlasgowPride #Tribes #LoveIsLove -
Tribes: Glasgow Pride 2026 Edition
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Tribes.
Chanel surfing | Half an Old Firm | Masked Bananaman | Is it? Could it be? Yes, it's...
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Tribes #Glasgow -
Tribes.
Chanel surfing | Half an Old Firm | Masked Bananaman | Is it? Could it be? Yes, it's...
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Tribes.
Sermon on the mount | I ink therefore I am | Support your local coven | Wholly holey.
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Tribes.
Sermon on the mount | I ink therefore I am | Support your local coven | Wholly holey.
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To sell to members of a tribe you must be part of the tribe. Suppliers and vendors: instead of marketing to me, join my tribe!
#meetings #marketing #selling #TradeShows #tribes #eventprofs
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To sell to members of a tribe you must be part of the tribe. Suppliers and vendors: instead of marketing to me, join my tribe!
#meetings #marketing #selling #TradeShows #tribes #eventprofs
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[P] The autistics will be trying to create a Council of Mutualism where everyone gets a seat, no matter how different. Meanwhile, allistics will be trying to create a Council of Humans who can experience elevated luxury by exploiting the non-humans. And frankly, I'll include ADHD with autism as the two can be a Venn diagram that's a circle more often than not, so they'd likely want Mutualism too. The Council of Humans are sick, bigoted fucks.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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[P] Add an orc, a sapient spider, a dragon, an ent, a bugbear (old celtic kind!), a cosmic horror, and a sapient gelatinous cube? The allistics will now shift their bussing to the non-humans as the most other, because there's one orc and one spider vs. The Human Tribe. Meanwhile, the autistics will be getting frustrated with The Human Tribe, who're trying to recruit those autistics who're trying to keep things equivalently fair.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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[P] How do I explain this to allistics? If an autistic person is placed in a room with humans of varuous cases of ethnicity, trans, enby, otherkin, and so on? The autistica of the room would be the only ones not socially picking out some to bus. Yes, this is why autistic people can suck at Among Us. I've seen some really funny videos about that. And the thing is? This fairness doesn't actually have end-point, because why would it?
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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[P] How do I explain this to allistics? If an autistic person is placed in a room with humans of varuous cases of ethnicity, trans, enby, otherkin, and so on? The autistica of the room would be the only ones not socially picking out some to bus. Yes, this is why autistic people can suck at Among Us. I've seen some really funny videos about that. And the thing is? This fairness doesn't actually have end-point, because why would it?
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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[P] A huge step in the right direction:
But...
"[...] a broader moral concern, extending fairness beyond their tribes."
There. Are. No. Tribes. Tribalism, the familiarity fetish scale, and the sociopathy room aren't typically autistic traits. Autistics typically don't, for example, separate whites and beowns into us<—>them tribes. Hence the observed more equal moral fairness.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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[P] A huge step in the right direction:
But...
"[...] a broader moral concern, extending fairness beyond their tribes."
There. Are. No. Tribes. Tribalism, the familiarity fetish scale, and the sociopathy room aren't typically autistic traits. Autistics typically don't, for example, separate whites and beowns into us<—>them tribes. Hence the observed more equal moral fairness.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humans #tribes
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The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall) "There are two ways of seeming strong: to build yourself up or to throw all others down" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Adrian Tchaikovsky Rating: 4.4/5 (2,396 Reviews) #Fantasy #Epic #ComingOfAge #Shapeshifters #Tribes #Adventure #BookSky
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The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall) "There are two ways of seeming strong: to build yourself up or to throw all others down" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Adrian Tchaikovsky Rating: 4.4/5 (2,396 Reviews) #Fantasy #Epic #ComingOfAge #Shapeshifters #Tribes #Adventure #BookSky
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Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration, and compensation to tribes in the coming decades after the city’s leaders greenlit a massive agreement concerning its dams on the upper Skagit River on Tuesday, April 7.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-to-sign-agreement-concerning-skagit-river-dams
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Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration, and compensation to tribes in the coming decades after the city’s leaders greenlit a massive agreement concerning its dams on the upper Skagit River on Tuesday, April 7.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-to-sign-agreement-concerning-skagit-river-dams
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To sell to members of a tribe you must be part of the tribe. Suppliers and vendors: instead of marketing to me, join my tribe!
#meetings #marketing #selling #TradeShows #tribes #eventprofs
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One of my public school students in 1977 at his Little League game. I hope some day gay people are more accepted as teachers. Sadly, it has not improved during my lifetime. #civilrights #equalrights #gayrights #endbigotry #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #1970s #littleleague #littleleagues #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #softball #softballplayer #softballplayers #tribe #tribes #monkeytribe #monkeytribes #monkeytribalism #tribalism
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#Aerial #lidarmapping allows #archaeologists to efficiently #map large areas with archaeologically relevant structures. However, the #article cited in the appendix #critically examines the fact that this increasingly occurs over the heads of #indigenous #tribes, whose way of life and traditional #knowledge are at risk of being #overlooked and #ignored. This raises not only #ethical questions.
©#StefanFWirth, March 2026
Reference
C.Hernandez (2026)
https://doi.org/10.64628/AAI.7evhdgdm6Picture
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We've (finally) moved to @Codeberg 🎉
Also « open-fpsz » is now « sunder »
https://codeberg.org/sunder/sunder#freesoftware #shooter #tribes #gamedev #game #multiplayer #godot
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Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books. As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language; it's ontological. In my first book on the topic, I focus on the societal problems. In the next, I'll focus on a broader object reality.
#writing #philosophy #psychology #hiatus #socialmedia #focus #ontology #society #humancondition #tribes #blog #philosophyoflanguage #podcast
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https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88
The thing is that growth of #liberal #democracy implies the hitherto #oppressed (e.g. #women, #poor, #marginalized, etc.) became better off and the ones at the top (i.e. #men from dominant #tribes) started really hating that. They subverted democracy to gain more #money (low #taxes) and #power to turn back time (i.e. #MAGA) They use both money and power to increase #tribalism which weakens #liberal #democracy that in turn weakens #economic #growth - get it?
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To sell to members of a tribe you must be part of the tribe. Suppliers and vendors: instead of marketing to me, join my tribe!
#meetings #marketing #selling #TradeShows #tribes #eventprofs
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#Wisconsin #tribes react after #ICE detains #NativeAmericans in #TwinCities
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/01/15/wisconsin-tribes-react-after-ice-detains-native-americans-in-twin-cities/In response to Native Americans being stopped by ICE, several Wisconsin tribes issued statements voicing concern over the stops and also offering advice to their members.
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#Ukrain #Russia #Palestine #Israel #Lessons of #Time within #Monkey #Style #infosec #studies #Defensive #Security #Ninja #Way #Tao #Dao #Daoism #Taoism #Buddhuism #Hinduism #Om #USA #America #Trump #Tribes #Fire #God #Eyes #Symbology #culture of #Time #SunWukong ... #Magic #Writter teaching #Children of all ages.
https://blog.odicforcesounds.com/beingFair.html
