Do you feel like Hubski is, or starting to, or on its way to?

Well, this is only my third day here, so I'm really not sure. I've noticed a lot of users with a background in Comp Sci, but I suppose that comes with the territory. But even then it's a barely noticable whn it comes to content.

Like what?

There's been a lot of push-back in recent years against local ordinances and homeowners' associations that forbid gardens or keeping chickens. There's efforts at community-based conflict resolution. Sometimes this is to deal with teenagers doing stupid teenager things, which has kept them from getting caught up in the prison system. The hollowing-out of the American economy has left its mark on many small towns, but some are bucking the trend and revitalizing.

What's Critical Theory? I've never heard of it.

Writers like Foucault, Derrida, Adorno, Deleuze and Guattari. It's what's popular among a lot of folks in academia. I know there's some really insightful stuff there, but it's only coming out of the ivory tower at a slow trickle.