Tribal

I am writing this Blog Post whilst listening to the above video so I've got crackling from a wood fire, some drumming and a flute giving it large. I thought it might inspire me to write something about tribes. Looking back over the blog and over the topics that have spurred me to write, the word and the feeling is Tribal. I didn't think that I was primitive and tribal but I must be. Living in Grangetown for 27 years has done that to me? When in Aberystwyth looking out at the wide expanse of Ceredigion Bay I have my 'Cymraeg' Head on, when I return to the Peoples' Republic of Grangetown I put my Cardiff head on. My Cardiff head looks down at the road a lot and not at the people. To be fair my 'Cymraeg' head does that as well. Never hold anybody's glance lest they think you are staring. La Grange or Glorious Grangetown is getting rougher. A lot of human shipwrecks about. I am now turning into a tribal elder. I was paid two compliments recently, one that I was showing maturity and the other that I had a military bearing. I took both as a compliment even though I am anti army. It has taken long enough but if others can pick up on something it is good to know. Personally I think that I have become over cautious especially in regards to travelling and in regards to people. "You get slapped down bruv and it makes you reticent, you get me!" I tweet against the Tories & UKIP, two right wing tribes at opposite ends of the class spectrum but both in tune against the other tribes. The ones trying to get over the channel. When two tribes go to war anaye! The tribes of East and West namely Putin's Russia and Trump/Clinton's America are sabre rattling. The Prophet of doom that I am, whoever wins the Presidential election I foresee will have to deal with a major security incident almost immediately as a test. Will they be ready? or will it send the modern tribe on turtle island reeling? When will native voices be heard? When will the indigenous tribes have their day of reckoning? Only the crackling fire has the answer! Tribal man, tribal.