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I'm generally leary of attempts at catagorizing humanity and the organizations it develops (it's so far from an exact science), but it still made for an interesting report. As the title suggests, it focused on how tribal structures appear in more advanced structures. It made me think of the brain. You know, there's the reptile brain, and the mammal brain, but mammals still have a reptile brain underneath it all.

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You can see a PDF online here, if you haven't already. It's an interesting idea. Probably just saying "Tribes" and "Markets" is clearer than saying "T-type" or "+M," though. S1, S2, etc. could be more clearly expressed in words, than in pseudo-formula.

The big question is whether the "advocacy group" model is really going to predominate. "Advocacy groups" don't actually produce much, so that model may be of limited significance. Arguably what we'll see is a third or fourth state of market industrialism or post-industrialism comparable to the shift from coal and steel to oil, electronics, and plastics, not a bigger shift like that from tribes to states or state institutions to market capitalism.

The other question is whether tribalism may make a comeback. Tribal diasporas have been "networks" within and across states and empires for millennia. As different groups move around more in the world, those ethnic networks may come to be more significant and undercut ethnically integrated markets and networks.