27/02/2025
āWhen we stopped being tribes, unity was cut off. We thought the couple, or the family core, would suffice, while friendships and circles of belonging gave us the crumbs of ephemeral conventions.
Tribe is much more than friends, and blood brothers. Tribe is the spiritual belonging to a sisterhood that sustains and invites us to sustain. Tribe is where natural roles are shared, exchanged and interacted.
Mothers today are mothering alone without the containment and support group. Children have brothers who are always the same, blood, and spiritual brothers who are many should be playing together, co-creating. We split up on small private estates, racing side by side to side in search of livelihood for the family core.
The natural thing is to group ourselves and while some sow, others educate, others build, some cook, and at the right moment we gather to eat, to celebrate, to continue tribalizing.
The love we so seek, in addition to the love itself that is cultivated, is not that of partner, children, family, but not having tribe to practice love in infinite facets, has overloaded the idea that the couple, children, and family, will give us the ground to channel the love.
Without a tribe it is like a dismembered human body trying to function, each member separately.
We need to go back to the tribes where grandparents are dignified and uncles are all. Trade, private property, and individualism ripped us off as branches of the trunk that binds us together.
In the tribe, all gifts are welcome, and rotating roles create no boredom or saturation. There are so many brothers and sisters in the tribes that sharing is rich and the models alternate.
Growing old amongst friends we realise and appreciate the tribal way. We can start earlier and give children the healthy environment where sharing is natural and where there are many references to learn from.
Tribe: It's to create love."~
~Laura Losada