Well, political parties are not government, they are patronage
organizations, and in poorer states such as ours the party faithful fall
all over themselves with way too early and ill-informed endorsements
just to please those who might maybe mobilize future electoral resources
on their behalf. Late or more well considered endorsements, well then
maybe not so much. This weekend The Party is coming to visit; observe
the groveling.
Hey, I'm not cynical.
But I'm a little kid in liking big trucks and construction. I'll drive
Cerrillos every day just to see what's going on. Cruise-o-tainment.
But, back to the article, one of the points is that many of the "new
ideas" with regard to cities are more or less clever marketing tropes,
and that buying into them inadvertently can reinforce the very processes
they seem to try to overthrow. Maybe that's the case, maybe not. We
should consider....
Best of luck with the pizza.
Carl
On 4/6/16 12:58 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
Arguable THE issue tech in NM is this:
Oh you need/want fast internet? screw you take this DSL speed instead!
Oh you just want go to the store and get some pizza? Screw you here's
some rode construction, plus some dick two inches from your rear
bumper instead!
Those are the kinds of crap that's wrong. end of story.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Gillian Densmore
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Great find carl!
MY issue is that all this crap is overly complicated. I just want
it to be both easy, and fun to do things.
lol that article is great but to many fancy words just to say yeah
things these days are to complicated, and I haven't a clue why.
Lets see today alone I'm trying out a few different weby-web page
makers because I ran into a gocha with wordpress it's kind of not
all that simple to make small changes to a wordpress theme. I duno
I don't think its as simple as it could be. On the other hand lots
of people use it, and suposedly Automatix said: uh yeah does this
suck, lets try to fix it.
My Cellphone has off and on reception. (Kind of the nature of the
beast with hills and vallies and no antenta's for a ways. My
internet sucks , the place I use to try out some options is
ludicrously slow. However The options are Affordable or Comcast.
I mention all this because I am puzzled Why the heck are these
basic things even a issue oO
The way I see it is this: bad news is NM failed. End of story.
Politicians just pointing fingers epically failed as well. End of
story.
The good news is it seems like many of the day to day issues can
be solved, NM has a some kind of nice village charm.
Personally I've had about enough of people saying john has
coodies, Fred has a large eyebrow, Sally's smile is to big or what
ever silly things they say, use to many fancy words just to say
Oy hey lets see if X can be done better, and not make it so darn
complicated.
The way I see it the questions should be limited as much as possible:
Does it work? and is it simple to do or use?, and useful and mabie
even kind fun and cool to do or use? these should be about the
only questions at least as far as I'm concerned- lol but hey what
do I know. ^_^
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Merle Lefkoff
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks, Carl. Don't have to tell you how much this resonated
with our work!
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Carl <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
An inspired rant possibly of interest to FRIAM denizens;
found the link through Bruce Sterling.
http://amsterdamalternative.nl/articles/1890
Can't say I disagree. Mainly since the sort of things
he's critiquing are increasingly coming our way and any
sort of expanded perspective may be useful.
Carl
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