Tribalism

First things first: I missed yet another blog post of this blog on Wednesday if you didn’t notice by now as no post was done. You might wonder what this means. Well, there was a lot going on that I had to do. I got a bit of heat exhaustion at work and might have had no choice but to accept the fate of one not getting done then. Ultimately, it was a power outage of less than 10 seconds that made me decide not to do a post on Wednesday. This means once again that I will be trying to double post in this blog by doing a post of this on Sundays and Wednesdays for the rest of this month starting today.

 

Now let’s get to what this post is about. It can be difficult to keep track of tribes in the newer world of Survivor. At least before its return after its pandemic hiatus, the tribes would switch too often for some of us to keep track of which tribes were which and who was on each tribe. But it seems like even today, tribal lines are still important throughout the life and history of Survivor. You will never seem to see any season go by without people sticking to tribe lines.

 

This was seen a lot throughout the classic seasons early on. People stuck by their tribe lines as often as possible. This was seen during seasons with tribe swaps. This was seen even when there were three tribes in All-Stars. And tribal lines became how alliances would go throughout most every season despite all of the craziness that would go on with twists and turns throughout the seasons.

 

It isn’t that hard to think of why this would be. After all, tribes are how things start each season even when you get weird opening twists where everyone is together until there are tribes later. But they still want to stick by their tribe mates season after season. This is also why you should treat members of your tribe good or they will turn on you when given the chance like John in South Pacific.

 

Tribe lines are always a good way of determining how the rest of the game will go. Throwing in different twists can affect it in some ways, but it doesn’t always change the way it works. Even when three tribes become a regular thing, it doesn’t always affect the game’s tribalism in the end as birds of a feather tend to always stick together. There isn’t much else to say. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.