A Macrocommunity
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"But as long as people are marginalized and distracted and have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments,[...] people assumed that they were the only people with that crazy idea in their heads. They never heard it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. Therefore, if you do think it and you answer it in a poll, you just assume that you're sort of weird. Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl."- Noam Chomsky, _Media Control_

allan thought he was alone. he thought he was a crazy guy trying something crazy with no clue if it would work or if people agreed in a meaningful way. and now he knows he is not alone

third culture is more than just music. it's the only way for people in ottawa to connect with eachother en masse. nothing else has that. *Nothing*. everyone's group, their community, their tribe, is carved out with great trouble of a macrocommunity trying it's very hardest to keep people alone. this is the only significant community that wants to bring people together.

