This feels very important to me. Surprised by the lack of debate. This seems like what people in fragmented individualistic society often don’t get, which is why they are doomed to remain fragmented. You can’t build anything more that a small group of friends, if sabotaging anything larger than that feels like the right thing to do.
This reminds me of the picture in How An Algorithm Feels From Inside. You start with a group of people with lots of 1:1 relationship; at some moment the picture switches into the star diagram with one central node. The central node is the egregore. And the rules you mentioned could be interpreted as a manual how to keep the egregore alive and healthy:
do not conflate your personal relationships (your friends) with the relationships of the egregore (members)
some human needs to act as a leader, but do not conflate the human with the egregore
as a leader, do not identify with the egregore, and as a follower, do not let him do so
as a non-leader, remember that you are still a part of the egregore
do not split the egregore (the new parts are less likely to survive than the original)
do not paralyze the egregore by endless second guessing
This feels very important to me. Surprised by the lack of debate. This seems like what people in fragmented individualistic society often don’t get, which is why they are doomed to remain fragmented. You can’t build anything more that a small group of friends, if sabotaging anything larger than that feels like the right thing to do.
This reminds me of the picture in How An Algorithm Feels From Inside. You start with a group of people with lots of 1:1 relationship; at some moment the picture switches into the star diagram with one central node. The central node is the egregore. And the rules you mentioned could be interpreted as a manual how to keep the egregore alive and healthy:
do not conflate your personal relationships (your friends) with the relationships of the egregore (members)
some human needs to act as a leader, but do not conflate the human with the egregore
as a leader, do not identify with the egregore, and as a follower, do not let him do so
as a non-leader, remember that you are still a part of the egregore
do not split the egregore (the new parts are less likely to survive than the original)
do not paralyze the egregore by endless second guessing