>From the wikipedia article: "Thus, the 150-member group would occur only
because of absolute necessity — i.e., due to intense environmental and
economic pressures."
So, if we run with this speculation, we could further speculate that:
1) those of us with the smallest tribes are the most well off (i.e. not
under intense pressures) or insulated, and
2) hyper-connected cultural trends like those involving facebook and
twitter and perhaps even the group identification surrounding
"superstars", highly popular novels, movies, clothing, etc. are all a
response to some as yet unidentified survival pressure.
If you put (1) and (2) together, you can infer that those of us with
small tribes will soon be catastrophically eliminated by this as yet
unidentified pressure because we're insulated from and can't intuitively
sense the eminent survival pressure.
Hence, the message is:
Join Facebook or DIE!
;-)
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