I am sick of them. So sick.
I think communities invariably bring wars. We have become disconnected a lot from family, friends, neighbors. So that’s why we have a community backlash: people crave that sense of fulfillment, they grew up with a big lack of it.
That’s what I see with the “indie game scene”. All I see is game developers. But it’s more than that: you need to share common values like 8bit graphics are great, gamepads are the best and you must “love” your devices. It’s a community.
It got twisted because at first, independent game developer just meant “no publisher if possible, certainly no marketing team to tell me what to do”.
Communities instill war. I saw people fighting in comment sections because their street had been added to a certain LA neighborhood and they were like “HELL NO I’M NOT PART OF THIS ARE YOU SHITTING ME?” We’re talking about a map on a website.
Communities exclude. I understand minorities finding peace in communities but in the end, the system doesn’t change. You only saved your ass for a while creating a reality distortion field, before your community becomes a minority (hi, black people!) and succumb to bigger ones. Friction will come, just wait.
Communities don’t really make sense anymore because we’re all in this together. Everything has repercussions on our lives, are we still learning that?
Of course if you choose not to fully join any community like I kind of effortlessly and inadvertently do, you’re screwed a bit.
And that’s where I don’t know, man. The atomic, individual level of things is so great though.