Wonderful, hard-to-summarize essay “Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community” by
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“Rolling Your Own Culture” has enough great ideas for several blog posts. #1: modular life-style pieces are ever-more-diverse and available…
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#2: In tradition, and in the subcultural mode, communities shared most life-style modules, so you could bring your whole self to the group…
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The subcultural mode failed due to greater easy of cultural access meaningness.com/subcultures & consequent atomization
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#3 Kegan stage 5, a/k/a fluidity, is closely related to “eating the shadow.” Love he made this connection!
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(I started writing about eating the shadow a decade ago at buddhism-for-vampires.com/eating-the-sha and have been meaning to follow up ever since #FAIL)
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#4 Stage 5 shadow-eating relativizes all judgements, so you can be friendly with people whose politics/morality/lifestyle is quite different
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#5 We can and must create communities based on shared development into fluidity, rather than cultural content ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/10/rol
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shared evolution as basis of community raises convergence/divergence question ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/01/can

