I was watching a youtube video that was a deep analysis of Tarantino's films over lunch, and it got into a wander, talking about the effect of social media on culture.
Most notably it cited a Korean philosopher who has spoken about Social Media being antithetical to the formation of true community, substituting community for random hits of attention.
Then I thought about Coso, which is in many ways the antithesis of social media.
We are a community, and we sometimes have disagreements. There are people of all manner of ideologies and ways of life that are on here, from the traditional to the exceedingly eccentric. (Hi!)
Yesterday I had a very wide ranging discussion about free will and determinism with @MLClark @AskTheDevil @Jorro @thewebrecluse and others.
THough we are all quite different and we got quite deep, we were all respectful of each other and had a good chat.
That is community, and a very good one.
@MLClark @AskTheDevil @Jorro @thewebrecluse The philosopher was Byung-Chul Han by the way and I think I'm going to get his work "The Crisis of Narration"
@NiveusLepus @MLClark @Jorro @thewebrecluse
You folks keep making me read nonfiction.