re: #172 The Ghost of Quesos Past

I find it weird because foragers have a lot of in-group norms that aren’t “law” but when you’re dependent on fifteen other people to survive, their approval or shunning has punitive force. I mean “Never In Anger” springs to mind first, but even “happy” groups like the BaMbuti you could get your ass beat for line stepping too much. And the freebooting peoples like gypsies…well, they may not care about civil law but they certainly have their own code. _{That involved knives and the occasional execution by train, in the case of the ones I was around.}

I think Duce…and pretty much all people that indulge “I would be a badass” survival fantasy—imagine that to be stripped of civilization is to be more free in a libertine sense because they have no interest in other people as living social beings. Because people are just meat that you’re occasionally want to fuck, the idea that implicit social norms with no formal enforcement could be more constraining that laws and legal systems just don’t occur.

Like they all imagine they’re going to be Lord Humungus, but none of them have the admin chops.

I watch Naked and Afraid just for the car crashes.