Everyone wants to know what a future neo-tribal society would look like and how it would work. I feel that us neo-tribalists have been asking the wrong questions. We already have examples of traditional tribes and even some of modern tribalism. The rub comes into applying that model to our current situation. It is just too large and complicated a question to ask. It's incredibly hard to envision or plan out a society in detail, especially a non-existant one. In my experience, creating new things is messy and largely develops through DOING things on the fly anyway. So let's set aside planning out future societies for a moment and turn to something simpler but even more crucial to tribalism.


If you didn't have to work a job, what would you do? What are your passions? What do you enjoy? What would you like to have more time to do? (It might help to think about what you did as a kid in your playtimes and much greater "free time.")


Please don't give an answer such as, "Create a sustainable community" or "Buy some property and live off the land." If you REALLY do enjoy meeting new people and introducing mutual friends (networking), then say that. If you REALLY do enjoy gardening or hunting, then say that. I'm not asking about your dreams of life beyond civilization or what you feel obligated to do. I'm asking you to share what you would really like to do right now if you simply didn't have to work.


I'll go first with a couple things off the top of my head: I really enjoy music and dancing. I would spend much more time developing my dancing, discovering new music, maybe making some of my own, and dancing my ass off to all of it.


I also dig creating themed fantasy environments that are partly an artistic display and partly an interactive playground. When I was a kid, my friends and I would spend days building a fort until it was just right and then we'd have play battles. As an adult, I do the same thing but with different themes and make it a party as well.


I'll probably add some more in the next couple days as those aren't my sole passions but I wanted to get this post out there so I can hear your thoughts too. I'm very curious to hear what you folks would do if you didn't have to work a job.