Maybe that's all a community is.
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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ironically market traders are not in competition with each other to the same degree. You get a pitch, and you're not special.
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oh i was just thinking that a fun correlative is that communities as you mean them are characterized by humility and cults by hubris
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like, in a community, nobody thinks they're too precious to have a bad day or get mad or sad or put up with somebody they find odious
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but point at anything that gets called a cult and it's built to absolutely eradicate those kinds of experiences, for the elect at least
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undersupply. Thus competition is fierce in writing circles. Thus 'power' starts to be a big deal.
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undersupply? of shelf space, not writing, i suppose you mean
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i mean undersupply of readers, of status, of prizes and being-on-a-panel.
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to illustrate the difference, I'll compare the sci-fi writing community to birmingham markets. You probably know which is the cult...
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if all the market-traders were selling the same stuff and competing for the same business, then perhaps you'd have the other dymanic
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yes, some pitches may be better than others, but not by that much. This is different from situation in writing where, there is inevitable...
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now, sci-fi writers are in competition with each other, they'll deny it but it's true. Awards, places on panels at cons, etc, etc
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no, I don't, not really. But when I think of it a major component is a kind of disconnect between community members...
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