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Ethan's Top Five Things Urban Tribes Should Avoid:
1. It's best not to sleep with every single one of your close friends. Leaving at least one or two "platonic" friendships insures that you have someone to commiserate with about how nobody trusts you.
2. Tribes from the dawn of man have used facial tattoos to signify membership in the group. It works great, but remember that facial tattoos last a long time and may impact your chances of mating outside the tribe. Before you permanently engrave the name of your softball team on your forehead, try it for a few weeks with a magic marker.
3. Sure it was fun to practice robbing a bank, but is that a good enough reason to go through with it? Living on the run with your group might seem like a lark but after a couple of weeks nerves are likely to fray. Remember how every one was sick of each other after that camping trip? Times that by ten.
4. You should try not to cut the outside world off completely. Living on a guarded compound is a lot of fun until you want to go to town and see the Matrix again. Remember: Swearing eternal devotion to a single charismatic member of your group usually means that he's the only one who gets laid.
5. As much as tribes enjoy monthly and yearly rituals, you should strive to avoid those involving the sacrifice of humans. I know this sort of activity may sometime seem like a "good idea," especially after those long weekends of amphetamine and cocaine use. Here's a trick: If the idea of blood sacrifice comes up in your group, volunteer to head the committee to "explore the idea." Later, keep the committee distracted with other action items.
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More on the above topic can be found in chapter 2: "Understanding the Urban Tribe."
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