The Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0

• 🔗 List of tribes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Ov1Y1xM-LCeYSSBYZ7yPXJah2ldgFX4oIlDtdd7-Qw/edit#gid=0
• 🔗 Accompanying essay: https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
• ✍️ Created by: Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes
• 📅 Date: September 2018
• 📃 Description: A spreadsheet identifying a number of "memetic tribes" and an accompanying essay. "We define a memetic tribe as a group of agents with a meme complex, or memeplex, that directly or indirectly seeks to impose its distinct map of reality — along with its moral imperatives — on others. These tribes are on active duty in the new culture war. They possess a multiplicity of competing claims, interests, goals, and organizations."
• 🎨 Type: Table; Essay
• ❓Inclusion criteria: [Not found]

Notes

• 33 "Memetic Tribes" of the political landscape, e.g. Social Justice Activists; Occupy; Post-Rationalists; Establishment Right; Trumpists; Alt-Right; Incels.
• Most wouldn't be included as tribes or centres of the Second Renaissance. Only one clearly part of Second Renaissance: Integral Theorists
• 🔥 Dimensions mapped:
  • Telos (aspiration)
  • Sacred Values
  • Master Status
  • Existential Threats
  • Combatants
  • Campfire (physical and online spaces where the tribe gathers/hangs out, e.g. Twitter, Youtube, Campuses, Streets, etc.)
  • Chieftains
  • Mental Models
  • Forebears