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What, really, is so bad about cliques? Are they not simply natural social associations?
Like-minded people tend to side with one another. There are certain people one prefers to socialize with over others. I believe that concept, in reality, is called having friends.
It seems as though people only feel threatened by what they perceive as a 'clique' mentality when they are in a context in which they feel they need to prove their validity. People assert their opinions, yearn for them to be supported, and tremble at the thought of being countered or ridiculed. In this situation, such an individual feels threatened by a group of people that may, because of a shared perspective, collectively disagree with them. Thus follows the petulant braying of "Clique!"
What is so difficult to understand about this concept? And what is so inherently evil about it?
I like some of you more than I like others, and I tend to disagree with some members of the board moreso than others. This is true of EVERYONE on this board - it's a sociological given. So quit whining about cliques, because regardless of size, everyone's in one.
The only problem is that it's fucking BORING lately. And there's no one to blame for that; we've simply encountered a brief quagmire.
Again, let's pull our panties out of our asscrack, shall we?
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