June 25, 2010
What I imagine the values of clusterflock to be
Yesterday I asked a serious question about something I’m very interested in: how would we describe the culture of clusterflock? The post didn’t get much traction, at least for the question itself. That’s no big deal–as Cindy said in channeling Bad Santa, “they can’t all be winners”.
That said, though, I’m still pretty curious. If culture comprises values and norms, what might those be? To satisfy my curiosity (this may be technical onanism, by the way), I started scribbling out what I thought some of the values might be, on the assumption that the norms would probably match up to them. Here’s what I came up with for what I imagine some of the values of clusterflock to be:
- Participation
- Honesty
- Inclusion
- Integrity
- Creativity
- Humor
- Respect
- Sense of intelligence (walt)
- Sense of curiosity (walt)
- Seeking (CeCe)
- Mutual affection despite differences (CeCe and Sheila)
- Collaboration (fuz)
- Love for language (Luke)
- Loyalty (Daryl)
- Maturity (Cindy)
- Thoughtfulness (Cindy)
What do you think? Hits? Misses?
UPDATE: This is a fascinating list for me given that it communicates so much about who we are and who we think we are. Once they’re back, I’d be interested in what the travelers think.
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One thing I’d add is a sense of intelligence, not that the place is exactly high-brow, but at the same time I get a sense that y’all have more than one or two functioning neurons going on.
Just thought of another one. A sense of curiosity seems a common denominator here too.
Seekers. People who recognize each other, instantly, sight unseen. Held together with a deep affection despite the differences.
Collaboration
There’s a love for language and a literariness to a lot of this that’s really great.
Fierce loyalty: we can talk shit to each other–but god help the rude outsider.
Actually, my references to the final scene of The Big Lebowski were perfectly serious. Metaphorical. But serious.
RIght. Like Carole said: Held together with a deep affection despite the differences..
And: what Daryl said. We can talk shit about one another’s mamas, but woe unto those other motherfuckers who try it.
And this.
Quick wit and a sense of playfulness.