In the early 2000's I spent a lot of time racing bicycles. It's a pretty good hobby, even though it's weirdly expensive. It's very time consuming too. Many other people participate in similar enthusiast hobbies and pursuits. Motor sports, for example, has a large base of enthusiastic participants. I'm citing those two hobbies/sports in particular because they're really equipment focused, and their participants are intense critics and users, and sometimes developers of new items or tools that'll give them an edge. Many other sports have elements of that, but are more corporate/industry driven mainly when there's mass participation.
It's not hard to imagine the "club"/enthusiast concept as a good basis for building a much more participant driven honing of other types of technology and cultural components. Right now most people are essentially passive participants in their life, and they spend the majority of their time turning a crank for a corporation or other type of business. Our culture is mostly astroturfed and synthetic, and right now it's turning into the ravings of some clique of inbred lunatics.
It'd be great if people really got off their asses and started participating in their own lives.
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