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Thinking about forms of human group bonding, and the words we use

I hear “cult” a lot these days, jokingly or otherwise. “Build/find your tribe” was fashionable around 2007-2015 but seems to have quietly out. My homies, the gang, my fam, my girls/boys

What are the other words?
Squad, crew, party, team, horde, mob, posse, troupe

I quite like troupe. Like, of clowns
I really like this essay about how public intellectuals *create* a public

A kind of subset of nation-building
Sense8 gave us “cluster” which is a fun idea
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