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I& #39;m gonna do a dumb rant about community.
When we think about it nowadays people usually think about a closely knit small village that interact together through living and working.
Or an internet community where you sloppily circle jerk eachother over mutual interests
When we think about it nowadays people usually think about a closely knit small village that interact together through living and working.
Or an internet community where you sloppily circle jerk eachother over mutual interests
Whilst these are both examples of communities. I& #39;ll give you another example.
That fat dude with the my little pony shirt at your school. That really fucking ugly broad at work that everybody kinda avoids. That way too openly gay neighbour you have.
Those are all your community
That fat dude with the my little pony shirt at your school. That really fucking ugly broad at work that everybody kinda avoids. That way too openly gay neighbour you have.
Those are all your community
These are the people you interact with, live with, work with, or at least YOU SHOULD.
Communities aren& #39;t only cliques. They aren& #39;t made up solely of people who get along and are alike. Communities are also build out of very differing people. And they must work together.
Communities aren& #39;t only cliques. They aren& #39;t made up solely of people who get along and are alike. Communities are also build out of very differing people. And they must work together.
Nowadays due to social media/communication you can rabidly gather, change out or abandon friends as you custom tailor your group and interactions to suit your need for smug self-satisfaction. Especially since tech and luxury has taken away those interactions that are of necessity
As you tailor your friends to your needs you increasingly forego any meaningful interactions, emotional growth and mental development as you get caught in an endless loop of reinforcing your own crafted persona. Your own "right-ness" afraid of ever being wrong.
This allows people to engage in destructive, idiotic, meaningless behaviour due to artificially gathering support for their views/ideas around them. Instead of listening or reacting to negative feedback from others that would otherwise naturally come from a community.
This is what leads to stuff like Bronies, Trans sex changes and don& #39;t forget the plethora of fucknuggets on our side of the fence. You can see the effects of this on twitter with the vapid transient interactions most people have. For instance with irony posting and group markers.
But even with all this friend gathering according to our custom specs. All this positive reinfocement. We still feel profoundly empty inside. Most of you are here on twitter for a reason. And whilst some of it is politics & fun, it& #39;s also loneliness. Which others drown on tinder
This brings me back to the examples I gave.
Whilst you may scoff at the Brony, the Trans and the others. These people have just self-selected in to other self-destructive ways.
Everybody is almost doing it one way or the other in these times. Dugs, sex, isolation.
Whilst you may scoff at the Brony, the Trans and the others. These people have just self-selected in to other self-destructive ways.
Everybody is almost doing it one way or the other in these times. Dugs, sex, isolation.
Those idyllic towns you dream of? Those "Let& #39;s start a compound" memes. They don& #39;t happen without these people around you.
You carefully avoid them because interactions may not be pleasant at all times or because you don& #39;t identify with them. But they& #39;re still in your community
You carefully avoid them because interactions may not be pleasant at all times or because you don& #39;t identify with them. But they& #39;re still in your community
You want that high trust society? You want that happy community full of people looking out for eachother? Then interact with these people, talk with them, bitch at them, yell at them, drink with them, maybe throw a punch. Just don& #39;t stop interacting. Build those bonds and work
They& #39;re in just as much of a hole in this disgusting empty wreck of a society where social cohesion has become mere myth.
Yes they& #39;re wrong, yes they& #39;re annoying, yes they& #39;re enemies. But that& #39;s on a large scale, nation level
Not in your community, learn to seperate these two
Yes they& #39;re wrong, yes they& #39;re annoying, yes they& #39;re enemies. But that& #39;s on a large scale, nation level
Not in your community, learn to seperate these two
If you actually did something together, even with the weirdos. No matter how dumb or reluctant it may be. Something might actually turn out for the better in your small area. People might grow, open up or better themselves
If more people did that we might actually get somewhere
If more people did that we might actually get somewhere
