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This is an insane and sad view of community life. Even with inequalities and ruling elites people are still able to find joy and share a sense of community.
by mateus1 2y ago
This is an insane and sad view of community life. Even with inequalities and ruling elites people are still able to find joy and share a sense of community.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoNo, they're unable to do those things with any population larger than Dunbar's number. Occasionally they put on a show that things are different, for people who will be gone in a few hours, if it would be embarrassing for people to see what it's really like. You do know about Dunbar's number, right? It's why you didn't fall asleep last night sobbing in grief at the 10 gorillion people who died horrible deaths last week. You're incapable of caring about anyone except for a very small number of people (probably fewer than 250), but it seems slightly shameful if you publicly acknowledge that you don't care about anyone (except that small number I cited) so you ignore it or lie about it. There is nothing insane about my view, though I suppose it might be sad. Humanity doesn't scale, now we can't be termite-people like the hivemind had its heart set on. Tragic.
- k4rli 2y agoI might not care for the people but I can care for the community. You are maybe too used to American ghettos.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y agoThat's an even weirder concept. You don't care for humans, but you care for the gigantic monstrosities that they sometimes collectively create, the ones that cause misery, sorry, and kafkaesque dystopias? I have morals which prohibit me from deliberately or recklessly cause human individuals harm. But I have no such morals towards communities... if it were possible to murder communities without harming the humans that were part of those, I might just do it for the fun of it.