The Gobcord Experiment

**The Gobcord Experiment** refers to a social/ethical philosophical fundament of Gobcord community-building which is tangential to the community mythos. The name of this philosophy is a reference to the term "the American experiment," which itself is a reference to the democratic/republican ideals of the United States' founding and the decadent, unpredictable future of its place in the nation today, with this place challenged by internal/external tyranny or the trials of time. Like many things in this wiki, this was a term coined by the writer (hi that's me my name's Sam) as to write about the subject in a way that was interesting.

The "Gobcord experiment" is based on the premise that the prominent cultural diaspora of Dad's House and the Zalinki community, which makes up a majority of Gobcord's membership, can and will enhance one another's admirable traits and individual potential when gathered into a shared community -- Loser's Club, now Gobcord. While the integrity of this philosophy has not always been substantiated throughout the community's relevance, it exists as a philosophical ideal on which the founding of the community is justified separate from the "political" motivation of the community's founding: to secede from The Colour Empire. While initially the community certainly didn't enhance anything, let alone each other, several regrettable bouts of community turmoil have made Gobcord baptize itself by fire; with time, some merit has been afforded to "the experiment," and the community has (relatively) been left to cool since its volcanic beginnings.

Much like how the usage of the word "experiment" in "the American experiment" implicates the sensitivity, vulnerability, uncertainty, and conditionality of American democracy, the Gobcord "experiment" invokes the uncertain and delicate fate of the community, and demonstrates a cognizance of the many manners which it can and will be led awry.

## Founding Philosophy

While to say that there was one person or a specific group of individuals responsible for the Gobcord experiment's (hence referred to as "the experiment" for brevity) conception is inaccurate, it should be noted that the server's founder and former owner Kris had a self-evidently important role in it considering they created the server. The sentiment of the philosophy described in the introduction of this article -- its pillar of "coexistence" -- naturally developed among the first and most prominent members of the server.

This sentiment, this pillar, was born from an observation of the degradation of the Dad's House community, and believed that a well-knit and slightly more mature constituency of the motley artists and comics of the Zalinki community were to fare better together than among the caustic rabble rousers of Dad's House. This pillar does not necessarily imply superiority over Dad's House, rather it implies a greater found peace distanced from it.

Along with the ethical pillar of "coexistence," the experiment's philosophy additionally hypothesizes the social necessity of open-mindedness from community figureheads. In the context of Gobcord, this is referring to the server's administration. Predictably, this sentiment arose during the conflict immediately leading up to the Goup, in which the founder Kris was replaced as owner after standing dissatisfaction to how the server was ran had reached a euphoria. As a staple of the experiment's pillar of "reception," it is a general rule of thumb in Gobcord that managing a community requires an open mind.

The importance of great transparency and communication between members of a community stands in concert with the pillar of reception; the pillar of "transparency." Kerzid, a shining contributor to the Gobcord experiment's philosophy, spoke about the resolution of drama, conflict, and petty squabbles within the community sodden in an authentic, Gobcordian attitude: "Let it be our goal that our indifferences are solved not by petty drama, but by being transparent [to] one another through simple communication and understanding. Can I get an AMEN?" (18 May 2021). As "managing a community requires an open mind" (also originating from Ker, though not verbatim) was the testimony to the pillar of reception, this quote was of a similar significance to the experiment's pillar of transparency.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021\_United\_States\_Capitol\_attack