Dunbar on Friendship

Robin Dunbar (of Dunbars number fame) has new work on friendship

Takes ~200 hours to move someone from stranger to close friend

7 factors for friendship compatibility are: language, place of origin, education, hobbies, worldview (religious, political), music taste, and humor pic.twitter.com/734SNYFHjx

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) August 21, 2021

Localism!

Informative thread 👇🏻

Plant-based protein is another example of corps cozying up to the money printer via crop subsidies.

Decentralized farms and meat processors is how we maintain freedom to eat real food. https://t.co/kZ3R8CGOQz

— Tim McElroy (@tmcel) August 21, 2021

Find Your Tribe and Build It Up

"Neither capitalism nor socialism can save you when all hell breaks loose. People—your family, friends, neighbors and sometimes, total strangers—can."

Read about the civic synergy program on our website:https://t.co/UD5rUmtQYk

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) July 15, 2021

Dunbar's Number

Most people associate Dunbar’s number with 150, but it’s more nuanced than that.

For instance, the 150 *includes* all prior circles of relations (5 + 15 + 50).

Robin Dunbar was recently on The Stoa (@peternlimberg):https://t.co/LS3srGr0B8

— Sloww (@SlowwCo) May 31, 2021

Freedom!

Thrilled to announce FREEDOM, which explains how people across the ages maintain autonomy in the face of more powerful foes. Humans are unique in that ability, and were that not true, the powerful would always dominate. Thankfully, they don’t. Avail 5/18: https://t.co/eFN3dUiyZl pic.twitter.com/6ENV3VcAhM

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) April 13, 2021

Related:

Today, I’m joined by Jack Donovan to talk about the roles of masculinity, individual responsibility, the heroic ideal, and why we as men look to the Gods and what we can learn from them.https://t.co/zQaWooR5Rr pic.twitter.com/KLZMUkUStS

— Ryan Michler (@ryanmichler) April 13, 2021

Everything revolves around taking care of one another and putting our #PeopleFirst pic.twitter.com/3Yfg4aVqa1

— 3rd Special Forces Group 🇺🇸 (@3rdSFGroup) April 16, 2021

Find your tribe.

It Takes a Tribe

Attunement is essential for a young nervous system to grow healthy. It’s also a great help for adults dealing with trauma. We all need to feel that love some time, preferably OFTEN.

Are you part of a loving tribe? https://t.co/eg2cw7rQGO

— Erwan Le Corre (@ErwanLeCorre) April 15, 2021

This afternoon at 5:30 PM EST, the Thomistic Institute at Georgetown University presents a lecture by Prof. Scott Cleveland of the University of Mary titled “How to Avoid Being Unhappy.”

Taking place over Zoom. Register to receive Zoom credentials.https://t.co/qAqSPEnRNe

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) April 15, 2021

Will the academics figure out that their academic talk isn't enough?

Should He Still Be a Role Model?

Evangelization through friendship is a start; but Christianity must have an answer to the state. (And that requires a proper response to feminism, not "Catholic feminism" of the John Paul II type or of anyone else.

“Looking back at my own life, the most effective Christian apostolates I have been involved in have been informal events building real friendships with neighbors, events focused on community, faith and scholarship.” https://t.co/wP8AuIjk1C

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) March 30, 2021

Civility Does Matter

But so does having appropriate responses to aggressive members of other tribes. "Individuals" need to find their tribe; civic nationalism is dead.

Does civility still matter? In an increasingly polarized age, individuals are grappling with this question. Join a panel of experts in a discussion on civility on April 9th at 12:00pm ET. Register here: https://t.co/FZxQTxXHfv

hosted by: @baylorinwash & @HumanEcologyCUA

— Initiative on Faith & Public Life (@FPLatAEI) March 26, 2021

Extended Kinship

It will align with a feminist "ethic of care" -- but does it deal with those moral questions and issues that lie outside a woman's moral psychology? No.

https://t.co/EygwwgIm3m

Extended kinship structures and small, tight-knit communities can teach us a lot about the Mystical Body of Christ. This is the story of my own very large, very small place.

— Punky Mantilla ☢️ (@PunkyMantilla) March 16, 2021

What Sort of Communitarianism?

CWR: Finding the path to renewal in the Church: An interview with Brandon McGinley by Paul Senz

“We have everything we need to renew the Church and the world,” says the author of The Prodigal Church, “but we just don’t recognize it because we’ve been so well-catechized by secularism.”

McGinley: "But at the same time, we can say that tight-knit networks of families have been essential to the Church’s flourishing through time, and then try to figure out what that looks like in the circumstances of our society and each family. We can say that a confident sacramentality in parish life sustains communities, and then discern how that works in a new, shrinking spiritual geography. And so on."

Who decides upon sanctions and enforces them?

The Family Compound

for the deracinated and atomized, only "extremists" would want this.

There are millions of private communities and compounds around the world.

The elite live in such places.

Many families have built them as well.

Others are made of virtual strangers cooperating to manage common lands.

(This is close to what I want ⬇️)https://t.co/bUdYrq1zaK

— Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul (@NoahRevoy) February 6, 2021

The Way of the Gang

I like this guy. I respond to this style of delivery. Wes explains how you beat the system:

How To Beat The System https://t.co/DdcknpYHwU via @YouTube

— QuintusCurtius (@QuintusCurtius) February 19, 2021

High Agency Communities

In a few hours I will be having Kyle of @home_grown_sanc on my podcast to discuss Localism and the recreation of small, insular, autarkic, supportive high Agency communities.https://t.co/oL3oAyO7zg

— Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul (@NoahRevoy) January 29, 2021

Say it with me again, this time with gusto,...

MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT!https://t.co/f3TPmQGXPw

— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) January 29, 2021

Sex Differences in Moral Psychology Are Real

This was written by a woman:

The simple answer seems to be to swim upstream and foster those things which totalitarian government is against. If totalitarianism wants us to erase our memories of history, community, morality, and faith, then we must cling tightly to those very things.

This memory muscle can be strengthened by reading good books, studying history, and discussing the gleanings from these sources with others. Regularly attending church, getting involved with the community there, and inviting that community into your home for fellowship will also increase that anti-totalitarian muscle. And last but not least, embracing family and expending energy to model good morals and behavior to your children will not only be helpful for the current fight against totalitarianism, but for future battles as well.

“Perhaps one of the most prominent features of a totalitarian regime is its quest to replace the old with the new. The past becomes synonymous with the bad and everything is redefined.” https://t.co/wHfgAR800A

— Intellectual Takeout (@intellectualTO) January 28, 2021

Lightweight piece. By comparison this has better and more concrete suggestions. Influencers are not leaders.

A Friend Can Relate to This

This is what I would like to recreate for my descendants with an exclusive, independent community of quality people who are also close to my ethnicity.

Start with 10 families.
5+ children per family.
In 3 generations we are all family.

Build a tribe.https://t.co/zHKsiavZ2Y

— Coach Noah Revoy | 5GW Arms Dealer For The Soul (@NoahRevoy) January 11, 2021

NuAmericans at Work

Networked tribalism in action.

This is an attempt to formalize the alignment of Google. https://t.co/bjUbCRqtOX

— John Robb (@johnrobb) January 4, 2021

Find and Build Your Tribe

“This is no true Democracy. Here is no solidarity such as existed in the ancient tribes and primaeval society, but only disintegration and a dust-heap” - Edward Carpenterhttps://t.co/73iKpd8qO1https://t.co/ajStwVRl1W pic.twitter.com/hD2ogr28bN

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) November 30, 2020

John Robb on Red Beard Radio

This is related to the idea of stories and why they matter now, more than ever. Triggered Empathy in the words of @johnrobb @dsearls https://t.co/zRlq7cEtF7

— Phil Windley (@windley) November 24, 2020

Episode #63

IDW Liberals Denounce Natural Affinities and Loyalties

Pseudoscience...

"Much of the glue holding modern societies together is alarmingly fragile, and triggers...can shatter this facade with devastating consequences that we are only just beginning to understand." - @Robertflynch https://t.co/LRncd8t7Zg

— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) November 22, 2020

The Negative Side of Tribalism

a mosaic of peoples in southeastern Massachusetts, and, on the other, skeptical provincials like Philip who lost faith in that ideal. They lacked the cohesion to stand up against a resolute rival.https://t.co/DJACWXE63s

— Pavlos Papadopoulos (@pleonidasp) October 24, 2020