Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: PoisonedDestiny on March 30, 2012, 03:15 am
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lately i've felt like SR is it's own little virtual world. the SR site itself is the market, with wares spread out in an open bazaar. the forum is a huge circular area where buyers and sellers mingle and hang out.
i find myself hanging out in review forums of a vendor when i await delivery, talking with people. it's like hanging out in a shop while you wait for your purchase to be wrapped and rung up.
meanwhile we have governing squares where we discuss issues affecting our little market. drug safety and advice is given out in a center that provides better drug safety education then any physical place in existance.
we harmlessly scuffle and there is drama in our little town. enemies watch us beyond the walls, and roberts and his crew stand watch and protect us against fraud and danger.
we are physically locked out. we are all disarmed and helpless to harm each other. fraud is still possible but violence is not. reputation is worn on one's sleeve. libertarian bliss.
if it can work here perhaps it can work out there one day.
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Unfortunately, in my honest opinion, it will never work out "there". That's why "here" was created.
I do have to agree it IS its on little social network, period.
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You have so eloquently stated my exact feelings since becoming active on SR. It's a bewilderingly beautiful thing and I think some people here tend to get caught up in the business and lose track of the big picture.
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Yeah I agree with the OP's sentiments. I've always lamented being born in this era for a lot of those reasons, as opposed to living in my romanticized 19th century ideal cowboy frontier land, but I must admit the internet is some cool shit. Drugs too.