The reason I didn’t run with Eternal September as title or as major example is that Eternal September is about cultures being changed by an influx of unacculturated people, whereas I suspect the problem I’m describing is present in every culture regardless of immigration/emigration. Like, I think that even quiet towns of 5000 people out in the middle of nowhere have their 200 lizardmen, and avoid the problems gestured at above primarily via everybody knowing who they are and discounting accordingly.
(A similarity with Eternal September is “that kind of high-context solution failing at scale.”)
EDIT: Oh, I’m dumb; I thought this was generically responding to the essay and I missed that it’s responding to Ray; the problem Ray describes is VERY Eternal September.
Feels very closely related in my mind, as well.
The reason I didn’t run with Eternal September as title or as major example is that Eternal September is about cultures being changed by an influx of unacculturated people, whereas I suspect the problem I’m describing is present in every culture regardless of immigration/emigration. Like, I think that even quiet towns of 5000 people out in the middle of nowhere have their 200 lizardmen, and avoid the problems gestured at above primarily via everybody knowing who they are and discounting accordingly.
(A similarity with Eternal September is “that kind of high-context solution failing at scale.”)
EDIT: Oh, I’m dumb; I thought this was generically responding to the essay and I missed that it’s responding to Ray; the problem Ray describes is VERY Eternal September.
Yeah I agree, I think your post points at something distinct from Eternal September, but what Raemon was talking about seemed very similar.