It’s a nice one isn’t it? And the idea of what yu read is going to lead yu to a community who think the same same way is enticing. But if yo take melvil dewey’s perspective, back in (say) 1865 and want to come up with a taxonomy which is useful, then in the end you up saying, “so what is all this information for? to what purpose will it be put?

And then it dawns on you, if the communities don’t communicate, nothing happens.