Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

i think FC should be the place where we have the difficult conversations re: everything (culture war, the future) with more vulnerability and less toxicity & dunking

reading the replies to @dwr.eth suggestion and agreeing with @vgr on pent-up demand leads me to believe everyone can only play nice and polite for so long...

these conversations are not going away and they are going to intrude on the web3 rainbow-fest whether anyone likes it or not. 

examples:
-Balaji explicitly calling out Democrats
-Ye's Jewish media followed by the almost entirely Jewish FTX drama

if web3 is the place to put your head in the sand then it will get eaten

the *hope* as i see it is the creation of a forum where these issues can be openly discussed with in-person levels of civility befitting the world we are attempting to create. 

avoiding them altogether is not an option afaict.

the revolution can stay ongoing longer than web3 can put on a happy face

so maybe the best we can do is create an atmosphere of civility that we aggressively defend

disclaimer: in many ways i too wish there was a place where very smart and optimistic builders could just gtfo of the culture war. it just don't seem to be our lot in life