Re:Killing Community
by Applejinx on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:58AM
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…or, your imagination isn't able to picture communities that are gentler, admittedly more fragile, and based on other sorts of bonds besides sheer power and rejection of power.
When you say 'nice little community X' is more fucked up, and when you fail to find the same bitterness in it and go 'well, let me show you what that really is' and wreck it until it IS bitter and broken, you're kind of missing the point.
Societies are really interesting things, but it's normal for people to form societies that are more structured and rule-laden to make their preferred people more comfortable and complacent. I'd judge 'em by their methods of exclusion, and I'd assume any society worth being in, must strike a balance between complacency and stability.
4chan is maximally stable in its flat field of shit and rubble. I'm not arguing that, I just think it's not unreasonable to aspire to more, even knowing there might always be the possibility for motivated outsiders to reduce anything you have to shit and rubble. That can be true, but it doesn't make shit and rubble INTERESTING. It's just maximally stable, it cannot be further disrupted, there is no 'down' to take it.
When you say 'nice little community X' is more fucked up, and when you fail to find the same bitterness in it and go 'well, let me show you what that really is' and wreck it until it IS bitter and broken, you're kind of missing the point.
Societies are really interesting things, but it's normal for people to form societies that are more structured and rule-laden to make their preferred people more comfortable and complacent. I'd judge 'em by their methods of exclusion, and I'd assume any society worth being in, must strike a balance between complacency and stability.
4chan is maximally stable in its flat field of shit and rubble. I'm not arguing that, I just think it's not unreasonable to aspire to more, even knowing there might always be the possibility for motivated outsiders to reduce anything you have to shit and rubble. That can be true, but it doesn't make shit and rubble INTERESTING. It's just maximally stable, it cannot be further disrupted, there is no 'down' to take it.