The Clan tribe culture-a homage to my dialogues with Kim Garren

The clan we talked about is a social, matriarchal organization. The matriarchs are voted-in annually, unless a recall election is called by an agreed upon percentage of the population. The matriarchs judge who is worth-a-fuck, male or female, to be a member of the clan. One seeking membership would need to be sponsored by a member of the clan. The matriarchs vote their blessing or denial. If denied, the sponsoring member would have to give up on that sponsored or leave the clan.

Other than membership, it would be a monogamous collective, unless there was a mutual agreement for polyandry or polygamy. The 'natives' would be employed in Earth-based or Earth derivative products, such as weed, moonshine, bio-fuels, etc, that would be sold to 'the heathens' outside the 'territory'. Children would be raised by their biological parents, primarily, but would have the support systems of the clan for secondary support. There would be those people who would be selected by their experience and wisdom to be the secondary support units. Otherwise it would be a communally shared responsibility for the necessities, security, and utilities of the territory.

The ethics of sharing, with the more skilled and experienced being the team leaders of the activities and their organization, are the basis of the by-laws-also voted on yearly, unless a special election is authorized by a petition of a critical mass. Those still in dissent and dissident to the elections and special elections would be free to leave, with their share of the earnings.

Earnings would be in a general pool, which the 'treasurer', voted from the elected matriarchs, would collect, invest, and disburse by the judgement of the matriarchs per the by-laws. The currency used within and as exchange with the heathen currency would be based on the value of the goods sold and on order as revenue to the debt/liabilities owed internally and externally by the clan. Excess or 'dividend revenue' at the end of the harvest season would be disbursed amongst the members, receiving less than X% of secondary support from the clan. The excess revenue in dividends they can spend or invest in capital improvements of the clan, or just in currency specualtion, though the former would be encouraged, since the other currencies are based on the 'solidity' of the USD.

The emotional integration of the members with and for each other and the larger group would be the source for the by-laws presented at the annual or special election periods. This grouping would seek its self-sufficiency from the outside political, cultural, and social forces of the 'heathen' world. This grouping is the prospective answer to the degenerating social and political conditions of the outside society. The values, developed organically by the empirical trial and error experimentation of relationships, would be the pollen for the ordering of clan life.