Even Introverts Need Crowds
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Even Introverts Need Crowds
also think we need to learn to enjoy locality. Culture emerges from the connections between people, and I believe these are always strongest in person. Face-to-face cultural engagement is necessarily participatory, online cultural engagement rarely is. Nearly all of my most fulfilling and exciting experiences, those that have made me feel part of a
... See morewe don’t belong to any intimate community, we humans feel lonely and alienated. Unfortunately, over the past two centuries intimate communities have been disintegrating. The attempt to replace small groups of people who actually know one another with the imagined communities of nations and political parties will never succeed in full. Your millions
... See moreEven if you prefer solitude, you have to admit that being a valuable member of a group is smarter. The best way to be safe is to help others be safe.
Pour nous épanouir, nous avons encore besoin de nous enraciner dans des communautés intimes. Depuis des millions d’années, nous nous sommes adaptés à la vie en petites bandes de quelques douzaines de personnes, pas plus. Aujourd’hui encore, la plupart d’entre nous estimons impossible de connaître vraiment plus de cent cinquante individus, indépenda
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