That piece on cultural authenticity has a lot of insight + useful literature review, although too clever by half: http://hilobrow.com/2010/06/01/fake-authenticity/ …
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The optimal size for a social group is dozens up to thousands. Optimal size for a culture is tens of millions at minimum.
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A subculture of 100-10,000 people can be an exhillarating artistic scene, but cannot provide the breadth and depth of meaning humans need.
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@Meaningness Is that true? Time, interest, energy, and deep knowledge don't seem like they're that readily available, even in neighbors. -
@Meaningness Many groups want people to learn programming -- but pointer jokes are still in-jokes and sign, even among students of the arts. - 3 more replies
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@Meaningness All sounds rather too neat & tidy Mr Chapman. Interesting all the same :) -
@Sciamanoinglese It is indeed too neat and tidy… I say so here: http://meaningness.com/meaningness-history#simplistic … Heuristically useful schema, though, I think.
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