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False community is the illusion of community without taking shared risks and so being subject to the same constraints, and pressures to agree. Some claim that the risk has to be physical, to the body, not just reputations or ideals. Others claim that it's enough to risk wasting your precious time. Either way, it's a risk to become involved in something that claims to be a community, that isn't. False community is a form of false conciousness.