Tried another stint in the LGBT in Tech Slack. Wow. I really don't belong anywhere anymore.
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it feels very intuitively truthy that communities of thereness are socially diverse and communities of thingness are socially uniform
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and the violence in the geek/mop/sociopath cycle consists in the realignment as thereness is burned to generate thingness
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but that of course is down to my definition of community. For me a community is for the people. A tribe or cult demands the ppl be for it.
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ah yeah, i guess i might be on record as making unequivocal statements in support of that kind of filthy individualism
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I figure that communities are structures of mutual support. Cults are structures of control.
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i doubt you'll really find many that are just one or the other but emphasis is important i'm sure
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hmm... that's probably true, but.... no I don't think that's true. I've experienced both, they're quite distinct.
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you don't think a community is just controlling you in ways you don't mind and a cult is just supporting you in ways you don't notice?
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