Social “Culture”
My thought for the year: it’s called “culture” because it grows everywhere.
That is, when you establish the bare medium for social interaction - be it a weekly meeting space, a shared workpalce kitchen, a mailing list, or an option to “friend” others online - the base medium exists for a social culture to emerge, evolve, self-enforce and self-define, in a very shirky way. You can affect the process in some ways, but once it truly picks up, it’s important to recognize that you are no longer in control. The culture is an autonomous organism.
This shouldn’t be too surprising, but sometimes I’m impressed (occaisioanlly: exasperated or awed) by how social patterns evolve, everywhere, again and again.
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