0.8 EVR Community
Something slightly more than the total sum of all persons with an Evr account
Philosophy
As a begrudging necessity, we will at some point extole the virtues of community, and "explore" its well-documented benefits. -Thankfully now is not the time to belabor those points! Because despite being very much envogue as a buzz-word & ill-defined aspiration, precious few pragmatic questions ever seem addressed. This take is meant to be sincere and poignant, not comprehensive: For all their nuance and diversity, Communities seem to have only one necessary feature: Mutualism.
Is this a belligerent oversimplification -absolutely yes, and intentionally so. Because with it we can remain naively ambivalent about the "right" way to go about creating, maintaining, & developing community. It forces us to place emphasis on plurality rather than prescriptions, which ultimately helps to increase the adaptability & scalability of the EVR community overall. So with mutualism established as our Keystone characteristic, what must this ecosystem provide, and what must it avoid to help it thrive?
Healthy boundaries are good thing, as are informed constraints. These limitations & expectations establish the grounds for interaction, providing a precursor to sustained mutualism and literal definition for a community. For the EVR Community, this includes all the protocols & metrics the Platform provides. *To be very clear -these two entities are not synonymous: the Community is meant to extend beyond the Platform; -to be variable & exciting, vibrant, dynamic & vivacious; -to excite & entice people to create beauty in the world. The Platform itself is meant only to be convenient & practical, unobtrusive & reliable, to disappear graciously into the background and be taken for granted. * So as unavoidable necessity it is, we've crafted our underlying architecture to be as generic & minimal as practical. Sacrificing customization of the Platform to remain un-obstructive and interoperable for the Community at scale.
The failure to form &/or maintain mutualistic bonds can happen any number of ways. All of which result from a change to some combination of material, psychological, or structural conditions, that culminates in needs not being met.
Sometimes those conditions are incidental: they can ebb & flow with some predictability, or be abrupt & unanticipated (like BlackSwan events). Sometimes our bonds are able to adapt with these new conditions, sometimes not, but we generally recover from them as naturally as they occur.
Other times those conditions are intentional: contrived by some agent with the intent of causing irrecoverable loss for their own gain.
Material, psychological, or structural deficits: Where the needs of those involved aren't being sufficiently met.
Emotional
Needs aren't being met, When their definition isn't explicit enough,
but where the limitations of pre- (and pro-) scriptions go awry is
Examples
Jimbo baked a cake with suzan.
Suzan helped replaced an alternator with Kendra
Kendra and Hilda played chess in the park
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