Stagnant community...

When every member of a community is busy looking into some other member of the community's something, either out of envious notice or desire of something possessed by the other, or just for the heck of it, every member of that community becomes so protective, defensive, reactive or self-preservative, so as to minimise risk or harm. But then the faculty of inventing or being an ingenious community is defeated. But that's none of my business.