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[Tsyal Makto]

I don't blame the settlers for wanting to be with the Native Americans. With how hard life was for them (they had no knowledge of how to live off that land, after all), not to mention all the religious fundies running around screaming about witches, I'd want to get the hell outta there, too.

@Tsyal - do you want to describe your Techno-Tribe society with us? I would like to hear about it

I haven't really thought in depth yet about the inner workings of how a techno-tribe would work. So far I have established that it would be a society that would still work to advance technologically, but would retain the circular hierarchle power structure of tribes. Part of the inspiration for it was the Venus Project, including such things as automation of menial labor, where all the tasks that currently take up much of our time (time once free in H/G times) are done by machines (including localized farming), so we get that time back to use for better things. Another thing that would be good is if we could still advance while remaining close to the Earth like our ancestors. Imagine it, we are a space fairing species, but while on our homeworld we choose to live close to nature and maintain a tribal culture. One day you could be wearing traditional tribal adornments, the next day, a space suit. Though one of the biggest obstacles is how we could accomplish large scale projects, things too big for one tribe alone. Obviously it would involve tribes interacting, but how exactly, I'm not sure yet.

I know, it's full of idealism, but a guy can dream, and who knows, maybe with enough work it can become a reality, though it would require a few major paradigm shifts on the part of humanity (we need them anyway, because our current paradigms are going to kill us all). Though I have been working a bit on a sort of "Pandora on Earth" civilization. An effort to make the intangibles a bit more tangible. Basically a primitive society with a few selective technologies to recreate, to a degree, the things on Pandora we have all come to love, but sadly do not occur naturally on Earth (like, my old example, hang gliders as Ikran). IIRC Zenit was also working on something similar a while ago.