We evolved living in tribes, knowing everyone and related to most of them, through blood or partnerships.\u00a0 Nowadays we live among strangers and this does not fit with the way our brains work.\u00a0 People move away from their families for work, live isolated in unfamiliar cities or foreign countries and make “friends” through social media or at work or through alcohol.\u00a0 Talking of alcohol, the Zurich Street Parade (photos on my photoblog) was a success this year, a drunken gathering of 950,000 strangers united through the common heartbeat of techno music.\u00a0 It was a lovely warm, sunny day. The feeling was good early on, turning aggressive later on as the alcohol really took hold.\u00a0 Afterwards people returned to their lonely and isolated lives.\u00a0 There are no tribes anymore, not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We evolved living in tribes, knowing everyone and related to most of them, through blood or partnerships.\u00a0 Nowadays we live among strangers and this does not fit with the way our brains work.\u00a0 People move away from their families for work, live isolated in unfamiliar cities or foreign countries and make “friends” through social media… Continue reading We Live Among Strangers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"We Live Among Strangers - Thoughts and Writings","description":"We evolved living in tribes, knowing everyone and related to most of them, through blood or partnerships.\u00a0 Nowadays we live among strangers and this does not fi"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,70,71,34],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-strangers","tag-street-parade-2012","tag-we-live","tag-zurich","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.liam-mor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}