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Subcultures get so easily reified into communities these days. “I’m interested in __” slides into “I’m in __ community” really easily. I’m interested in a lot of things but in the “communities” of almost nothing. “Communitization” is to culture as securitization is to finance.
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I think communitization is a millennial mode. It’s part of the solution they’ve discovered to the “lifing” part of adulting. Part of why I’ve resisted strong “communitization” around my activities is simply that I’m old. Gen X types don’t really like it. We tolerate it at best.
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My inter-generational compromise could be called half-ass communitization. Or communitization with Gen X characteristics. We’d rather have the barbell of 100% institutionalization or nothing. Communitization is worst of both worlds, but better than pure anomie I suppose.
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Something very cultural-neoliberalist about the barbell getting transformed into communitized society. Bowling alone without the alone.
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