February182008
Once any community reaches a certain size it begins to destroy itself. The thing is, it first starts to splinter into groups: The top, the middle, the bottom, the old, the new, the interesting, the boring, the smart, the dumb, the trivial. These groups start to war, start to try topping each other and instead knock each other down. Pretty soon there’s no community, but only warring factions which, as usual, degenerates into pettiness, smallness, and the same old. To anyone who joins a community and says of it “Wait, no, THIS one is different”, I say this to you: Just wait.
