I sorta also think that “people acting on a promise of community and support that they later [find] [isn’t] there” is sometimes done semi-deliberately by the individuals in question, who are trying to get as much work out of their system one’s as possible, by hoping a thing works out without really desiring accurate answers.
Personally I think of people as more acting out their dream, because reality seems empty.
Like the cargo culters, praying to a magical skyplane that will never arrive. Sure, you can argue to them that they’re wasting their time. But they don’t have any other idea about how to get skyplanes, and the world is a lot less… magical without them. So they keep manning their towers and waving their lights.
Personally I think of people as more acting out their dream, because reality seems empty.
Like the cargo culters, praying to a magical skyplane that will never arrive. Sure, you can argue to them that they’re wasting their time. But they don’t have any other idea about how to get skyplanes, and the world is a lot less… magical without them. So they keep manning their towers and waving their lights.