I very much enjoy the references and the intentions of the book and experiment, since these are the human dynamics that create the strongest communities where teachers and lifelong learners are an asset with abilities and tactics shaped by the wider group around them that they value.

That being said, I do have to wonder at the execution~ this feels a bit like the classic web2 style 'pickup artist neg' tactic of trying to goad a response by being flamboyantly inflammatory because those types of disingenous takes often drive views on traditional platforms. It will be interesting to see if it works in a space where people largely interact voluntarily and grow organically based on the relationships they develop through commenting on each other's work, shared interests, playing games together, or curating content into community feeds. The sweeping declarations and demands don't have an algorithm pushing them, so when you're new and have not many connections on a network it stands to reason some alternative, truly social tactics may end up being in order.

It sounds like, despite being seated across from me, you were in attendance at quite a different dinner! (I was at the one a group of friends winding down after a long last day didn't want to get on the blue chip yacht to party instead of.) We were happy to have you and some other new friends with us, and I recall shared tales of traveling to places like Croatia, personal interests, catching up with people we'd not seen in ages and getting to better know lovely people like cheeruphumanity, beers and philosophy... But very little discussion of Hive at all! Then again, we did have a good time with proof of schnitzel, so I guess you could consider that some big (hungry) mouths.

Otherwise, I'm glad you're popping in to take crack at things and will be interested to see if your chosen style will end up resonating. It isn't to my particular tastes, but the world would be quite boring if we were all the same~