Having been a brony for 3 years now and having been to a few brony communities including MLP Forums, I got the chance to see things. I've met different kinds of people in this fandom and the focal point for this conversation being the ideals that certain bronies work towards. I'm sure you can recall at least someone who has been transformed because of the show by its message of friendship and harmony.

That message is the vision which the more passionate bronies tend work to carry out but when thinking about this at a community scale, I haven't seen a single person bring up -- let alone address -- the myopia of this vision.

Focusing on the show itself, we see the conflicts and endeavors of a group of mutual friends who solve problems not only of their own but that of each other's. The lessons they learn make them understand each other better, makes their friendships more robust and makes them more adept at solving conflicts which either affect one or more of them. As beautiful as that is, therein lies the caveat; we only see these friendship problems in how they affect individual relationships instead of how they affect the social environment of a community such as the one they live in; Ponyville. Problems that face Ponyville as a whole community simply don't show up or are solved off-screen.

At the end of the day, friendship is about individual relationships. Concerns that face whole communities fall outside of the scope of the show's message. This is the myopia of the magic of friendship.

So why am I bringing all this up? It's because of how I've been seeing the more passionate bronies attempting to utilize the show's message to create a harmonious community environment but doing so through friendship requires that all individuals be good friends with all the rest which can only really work if the community is but a handful.

Creating and maintaining harmony at a community scale is a whole different ball game with different rules that require different principles; something that the show just doesn't touch upon