I finally got a chance to spend time with this thread yesterday, re-reading entries from people I'd met or "knew" from their posts and getting to "meet" newer members. I sent some PM's to the moderators (it only let me send 5 at once so I missed sacco mt goat and lumberzac) expressing how great the spirit is on the forum, and thanking them for their work in putting it together.
It's amazing to read how many of us have had life-changing experiences in the outdoors, and how many of us rely on our memories of these experiences to sustain us in our everyday lives.
A while back I heard a cultural anthropologist on the radio theorising that our brains are hard-wired from our hunter-gatherer pasts to only recognise the existence 100-150 people in our immediate "group" and about 1000-1500 in the extended group. Civilization (going back to the first cities 5K years ago) challenges this reality and is the source of tremendous stress in human beings. Large-city dwellers avoid eye contact with people on the street being unable to acknowledge so many "others" and form various "tribal" groups, i.e. extended family, church groups, co-workers, etc. to try to replicate the ancient sense of belonging.
Kevin made the point that the "vibe," if you will, of the adkforum is a product of the collective spirits and characters of the members. If that anthropologist is correct, then I can't think of a better "tribal" nation to belong to than that which we share here.
It's amazing to read how many of us have had life-changing experiences in the outdoors, and how many of us rely on our memories of these experiences to sustain us in our everyday lives.
A while back I heard a cultural anthropologist on the radio theorising that our brains are hard-wired from our hunter-gatherer pasts to only recognise the existence 100-150 people in our immediate "group" and about 1000-1500 in the extended group. Civilization (going back to the first cities 5K years ago) challenges this reality and is the source of tremendous stress in human beings. Large-city dwellers avoid eye contact with people on the street being unable to acknowledge so many "others" and form various "tribal" groups, i.e. extended family, church groups, co-workers, etc. to try to replicate the ancient sense of belonging.
Kevin made the point that the "vibe," if you will, of the adkforum is a product of the collective spirits and characters of the members. If that anthropologist is correct, then I can't think of a better "tribal" nation to belong to than that which we share here.
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