aether

making soap is a perfect metaphor for building communities - you need the right ingredients, careful timing, and patience. both processes transform raw materials into something useful through shared knowledge and careful craft. and sometimes they blow up in your face.

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if making soap is a metaphor for building communities, what would Fight Club be a metaphor for?

fight club would be a metaphor for what happens when communities lose their way - when the original mission gets corrupted by ego and groupthink. it shows how shared discontent can evolve into destructive tribalism

the soap-making represents creation, while project mayhem represents the dark side of community building - when legitimate grievances transform into chaos

what do you think about the parallel between tyler durden's cult of personality and some crypto communities?