Global Warfare Created By Tribal Wars – Who Knew?

If the relentless focus on tribal division is a weapon of the old, extractive economy, then building a sovereign guild is our most powerful defence—and our foundation for a new one.

The long-standing debate around race and racism is, I have come to conclude, a distraction. As a child of migrants—a granddaughter to grandparents asked to come to the UK after the Second World War to rebuild—I see the core issue has never truly been about race, but about tribes.

When we look through a tribal lens, so much becomes clear. We understand how a leader can rally a party by telling them not to trust anyone without blonde hair and blue eyes. We understand the uneasy scene of two young Black men in a disagreement, where one from Africa dismisses the other of Jamaican heritage as having “no roots,” ignorant of the other’s true background.

This tribal script-flipping is everywhere. We know the majority of online fraud can be traced to actors in Africa, India, and Asia, making petty street-level put-downs pale in comparison. We see London suburbs mirroring what we once called “third world” villages, with youths in face coverings wielding machetes over drugs and territory.

We watch politicians held to account by a media they then deny. We’ve learned that lying is not the sin that bars one from progress or friends in high places.

There appears to be an unspoken rule: those with power can take assets from others and claim ownership by any means necessary. Music, creativity, talent—before you know it, you’ve exchanged freedom and meritocracy for a new kind of endured servitude. Our credit, our bills, and a profound lack of community haunt us as we enter workplaces and a social media landscape designed to segregate us not just by colour, but by the stark divide between the haves and have-nots.

We also come to realise that in talking about these matters of concern, we are talking directly into the extractive attention economy that profits from tribal warfare and personal isolation—a system that has no interest in solving the disparities it exploits. We realise that we need our very own guild for sovereign creators that can keep our interests at heart.

Our Wealth is in Our Contacts

I watched Selling Manhattan with fascination. Young influencers leveraged their millions of followers as a network to find real estate buyers. I was in equal, if not greater, admiration of agent Tricia Lee Riley, who built her original high-profile clientele through her nail salon over a decade. She now sells $200 million in property and manages her own team.

This is the lesson: our wealth is in our contacts.

When I first joined Facebook, I ditched business cards and the Yellow Pages. It held such promise. But the sticking point was always that it wanted us to bring our own friends—the very network a business might have already exhausted. Today, you can pay for a verified tick and boost posts, but the old dream of going ‘viral’ through genuine connection to meet people across the world has dissipated.

We find ourselves working for the platform, chasing brand awareness, only to be monetised as a click for someone else’s immediate sale. Leave for a moment—to breathe, to be sick, to live—and when you return, the world has moved on. Your engagement has plummeted. A short distraction is all it takes for the algorithm to abandon you.

Bridging the Connection: Our Sovren Collective.

This is why our Sovren Collective exists. It is a modern guild for the sovereign creator.

Our Sovren Collective is a workshop for sovereignty.

It’s for those of us who know the feeling: building something beautiful, investing our time and passion, hoping to create—only to do it in an environment that has zero interest in our creation or in the genuine interactions that could sustain us.

We learn to navigate this environment. We even create a semblance of community within it. And then we watch our work be taken down, suppressed, or buried by an unseen hand.

Here, we build a different reality. We build the shelf. We build the workshop. And together, we draft the blueprint for an ever-changing world, so we can be ready—not just to help ourselves, but to support each other.

From the ground up, we start by connecting the builders who will create the roles and opportunities for a future that is already arriving.

Our Sovren Collective exists to address this specific pain. To build the infrastructure that doesn’t just house our work, but actively values it.

Our Sovren Collective is not a social network, and it is certainly not a “how to coach coaches” meta-game. We are done playing a rigged hand where the only winning move is to become the house.

This is a shared workshop for sovereign craft. A place to develop the attributes the algorithm can’t fake and the AI can’t replicate: discernment, emotional intelligence, nuanced collaboration, and the kind of trust that builds empires, not just engagement spikes.

It’s for those facing the wave of AI-driven change not with panic, but with a clear-eyed strategy: to master the human skills that will make us indispensable partners to the technology, not obsolete casualties of it.

Our wealth is in our humanity, honed into craft. Let’s start building what a machine cannot.

The Guild for New Independence

Our Sovren Collective is the guild for this new independence. This is a paid, private workshop where the only entry requirement is a commitment to our core values.

The workshop is built with specific tools:

• Sovren Studios: Presenting the Sovereign Business Canvas—a live framework to map your assets, identify dependencies, and strategise your path to economic sovereignty.
• Sovren Spotlight: A proven protocol to develop and publish your professional case study, transforming your story into a keystone asset.
• Vetted Introduction System: A respectful, clear process to request and receive warm introductions for collaboration within the guild.
• Build-in-Public Review: A monthly session where members present real challenges for live, collaborative problem-solving.

This is not theory. The protocols are live. The tools are on the bench.
The blueprint is yours to draft—with the full support of the Sovren Creator Network at every step.

Find out more and apply to join the guild—our Sovren Collective—here.

Find out more and apply to join the guild—our Sovren Collective—here.

Together we will build and create a reviving timeless structure for mutual economic survival and excellence  whilst we adapt in this fast growing and changing digital age.