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[–]send_nasty_stuff 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Attempting to force a culture onto a group or organization is a way to subvert it and direct it to other means. The only 'culture' I'm willing to promote on saidit is a culture of truth.

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I agree. I'm not sure Saidit will ever stop posting misinformation, and referring to it as truth, but that's for a different discussion, on which I am sure others will disagree with me. Concepts of 'truth' and of 'Truth' have always been subjects of debate, though with similar interests in mind. But something we all share are concerns about govenrment overreach, social problems, &c. My view is that we should look at the approaches of so-called 'open societies'. For a time Reddit was a relatively open society. And though Saiditors might not like the early association of open society with liberalism that association is a very early concept of the open society, c. 18th century - to 1950s, and remarkably different from so-called neo-liberalism today, which is of course seriously problematic. In any event, groups, societies, and organizations I've worked with required a basic set of rules and a lot of freedom for the organic exploration of ideas. A series of texts I'd recommend on the history of open societies is Karl Popper's 'Open Society and its Enemies', which hasn't been surpassed as an important historical resources, in this case written by a science historian.

[–]Zapped[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Culture is not forced, it is nurtured. One way to do that is to maintain structure. If people are acting in a way to block truth, then the structure handles that in the form of rules, stated values, consequences, etc.