My concern with having an existing culture in place is we are robbing new people of the excitement of creating something themselves. This is a response to Lou also on the notion of lurking. To lurk is to acknowledge that something exists worth attending to though it may not seem worthy of responding too. It may not draw you in which is fine but it may also be missing a sense of responsiveness as might happen here as we cluck along with each other.

Reading about dialog and psychiatry my sense is that responsiveness is wired into us as a trigger of attention and participation. What makes school such a bore is the false responsiveness of that-which-is-known. Even kids aren’t fooled by it. If we do repeat the known then at least we should add novelty, contradiction or surprise. For instance I was at a lake the family used to go to on holidays and while walking around the edge looking at the water striders that are very much a feature of still water there appeared a tadpole. No big deal except the tadpole was the size of a man’s shoe and seemed to be talking to me. I missed what it was saying but as a childhood hunter of tadpoles I suddenly felt hunted myself by this unexpectedly menacing creature.

The expected altered by reality running on its own without assistance might answer Kafka’s: “In the combat between you and the world, prefer to the world.” I’m thinking Rhizo15 should run on its own.