[rfrey]

>> The challenge is to get more people ... > Why do you think this is an important goal?

The purpose of banding together in communities is to provide better lives for those who join. At the most basic level, communities provide protection against predators (and other communities!). A more sophisticated benefit comes later with specialization of labor. Recently (the last 500 years or so) significant economic advantages have been had by members of larger communities.

So if physical needs are satisfied, why shouldn't a community concern itself with other ways to make its members happier and live more fulfilled lives? That might might include finding ways to encourage members to, as the OP says, learn instruments, languages, etc.

That requires us to assert that some things (art, music, kayaking) are better than others (reality TV, talk radio). I'm OK with that.

[innguest]

If you think that and other people you know think that, you should be free to voluntarily form your own community, protect yourselves, work hard and do the things you want.

But I'm not OK with your opinions of what activities are better than others and so I don't think it's fair for you to force it on others.

I'll take talk radio and TV over kayaking any day. You'll never get people to agree with all your thoughts. That's why we need to be free to form our own communities.