It did grow itself. And the community decided it was a community not a hobbyist forum, and thereby talked about a lot of things on their minds with their likeminded fellows.
You can only talk so much about the same video game drivel before its redundant, especially when most people are completely checked out of the journalism part to even care how cancer it is.
That's not the point. We haven't formed a community yet. We need to build institutions. That's why I'm so happy about our book club and our wonderful developers.
Communities can't be built without pillars. And pillars can't be built on rage alone. The work of civilization must be to make something less fleeting than an emotion.
Hard disagree. I've built my own community and network of people over the years in my personal life, and subsisted and continued on by sheer force of rage alone from the onset and for most of it. And when it subsides, the wealth of my creations hold me afloat. But the rage returns to keep me from resting on it.
People need rage to break out of their comfort. They need something as impulsive and fleeting as an emotion to defeat that logical part that keeps them at home, "protecting their families," and thinking that online jerking off is actually doing anything.
Rage might not be the "heroic pillar" you want, but that rage will create something a pillar can be built on in the aftermath. "Civilization" isn't a two step, one person process. Its a transitory one made up of constant checks and balances on all types of actions.
It did grow itself. And the community decided it was a community not a hobbyist forum, and thereby talked about a lot of things on their minds with their likeminded fellows.
You can only talk so much about the same video game drivel before its redundant, especially when most people are completely checked out of the journalism part to even care how cancer it is.
That's not the point. We haven't formed a community yet. We need to build institutions. That's why I'm so happy about our book club and our wonderful developers.
Communities can't be built without pillars. And pillars can't be built on rage alone. The work of civilization must be to make something less fleeting than an emotion.
Hard disagree. I've built my own community and network of people over the years in my personal life, and subsisted and continued on by sheer force of rage alone from the onset and for most of it. And when it subsides, the wealth of my creations hold me afloat. But the rage returns to keep me from resting on it.
People need rage to break out of their comfort. They need something as impulsive and fleeting as an emotion to defeat that logical part that keeps them at home, "protecting their families," and thinking that online jerking off is actually doing anything.
Rage might not be the "heroic pillar" you want, but that rage will create something a pillar can be built on in the aftermath. "Civilization" isn't a two step, one person process. Its a transitory one made up of constant checks and balances on all types of actions.
That sounds more like self-righteousness. You can start building a real pillar off of that, but even that can't be your actual pillar.