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Radical Self-expression and Communal Effort

Radical self-expression stems from an individual's unique gifts. Everyone is free to express themselves as they feel.

5️⃣<strong>Radical Self-expression</strong>: Radical self-expression stems from an individual's unique gifts. Only the individual or a collaborating group can define its content. It is offered as a gift to others. Here, I think it's worth noting that everyone is free to express themselves as they feel, shedding all expectations, morals, assumptions, and stereotypes. This applies to everything around: art, events, behavior, clothing, etc. And yes, some people free themselves by walking around naked (although there are significantly fewer of them than I expected from the stories), but it doesn't bother anyone at all. At first, it is alarming, surprising, and then it creates thoughts about whether these snobbish constraints, expectations, biases, etc., are needed in the 'real' world, where they create nothing but limitations? A very strong principle.

6️⃣<strong>Communal Effort</strong>: Our community values creative collaboration. We strive to create, promote, and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and communication methods that support such interaction. Here, of course, it's hard to add anything - the amount of effort put into physically creating something that lasts only a week still doesn't make sense to me (despite the fact that I myself have 'killed' a huge amount of time creating art that disappears after a week), but it is important that this is not only about the physical creation of objects but also about creating and maintaining an ideology that exists constantly and expands beyond a week.