There are certain goals for which having a moral or intense community is helpful. Whether or not I want to live in such a community I consider it okay for other people to build those communities. On the other hand, building cults is not okay in the same sense.
Intense communities also generally focus on something where otherwise there’s not much focus in society, increase cognitive diversity and are thus able to produce certain kinds of innovations that wouldn’t happen with less cognitive diversity.
I was just thinking of the far right-wing and left-wing in the US; radical news organizations and communities. Q-anon, some of the radical environmentalists, conspiracy groups of all types. Many intense religious communities.
I’m not making a normative claim about the value of being “moral” and/or “intense”, just saying that I’d expect moral/intense groups to have some of the same characteristics and challenges.
What are “intense” and/or “moral” communities? And, why is it (or is it?) a good thing for a community to be “moral” and/or “intense”?
There are certain goals for which having a moral or intense community is helpful. Whether or not I want to live in such a community I consider it okay for other people to build those communities. On the other hand, building cults is not okay in the same sense.
Intense communities also generally focus on something where otherwise there’s not much focus in society, increase cognitive diversity and are thus able to produce certain kinds of innovations that wouldn’t happen with less cognitive diversity.
I was just thinking of the far right-wing and left-wing in the US; radical news organizations and communities. Q-anon, some of the radical environmentalists, conspiracy groups of all types. Many intense religious communities.
I’m not making a normative claim about the value of being “moral” and/or “intense”, just saying that I’d expect moral/intense groups to have some of the same characteristics and challenges.