> Fellow MOQers, philosophers and internet alter-egos.
>
> I feel I must express my discontent, and what sometimes borders on
> anger towards the MOQ_discuss. The reason for this, you may feel is
> unjustified, and perhaps it is, but it is a low-quality feeling
> about the way things are going in general that I will try to explain
> and then come up with some kind of solution for.
>
> I am, as you may know, quite a bit younger than most of you, and at
> that I am known to my friends as the person who always voices the
> grandest, seemingly unreachable visions, and who whants things to be
> done _here_, _now_; and to be done in a grand sort of all in-
> fashion. In all fairness I submit this basic trait of my persona (I
> have, sometimes described myself as having the heart of a fanatic,
> but thankfully not the mind of one) so that you know where I'm
> coming from when I continue, but I also submit that I from my
> experience with working with the student union and various
> administrative university organs I do understand the Value of
> procedures, to haste slowly, and to get things right ( and indeed I
> am Swedish, and since that's basically the nature of our entire
> nation it should come naturally to me one can think ;-] ) - As long
> as there is a clear vision of the goal - the grander the better -
> there is no problem in the slow proceedings I feel.
>
> The problems arise when the visionaries grow old and tires, and like
> the revolutionaries of the 60's end up on caf?s in small groups,
> talking about a revolution among themselves, a revolution they know,
> deep down, will never happen.
>
> The MOQ_discuss, as I see it, is a kind of caf? where philosophers,
> young and old can get together and discuss their ideas with each
> other - and that such a place exists is indeed a grand thing.
>
> But me, beeing who I am, am not happy with just this. I want to see
> more. I want to see us pick ourselves up and make the revolution
> happen! I want to see us be Dynamic, start rolling the snowball etc
> etc. And I know; a metaphysical shift is an extremely slow process,
> and I know, it's not that easy. But frankly-
>
> I don't care.
>
> Most of us believe that the MOQ could be the most important thing
> since Socrates, and true or not, if we believe that we need to show
> it to people! We need to do Quality work.
>
> If I had the money I would start an Academy, build a MOQ
> headquarters and start a "Order of the MOQ" (and insist everybody
> wore silly moustaches or something like that) - or something (yes,
> yes I know it's static and all that, but it's just tools, and we
> need tools)!
>
> Now: to the somewhat more concrete part:
>
> I have gotten a few people to pick up "Lila" by speaking to them
> about Marxism and the MOQ in connection, people have found the
> connection quite interesting and have wanted to explore the matter
> for themselves: a Good hard example of how things gain much better
> clarity through a MOQ view, and that does get people interested.
>
> Finaly: I urge you all to be visionaries and na?ve with me. Start
> preaching more (I know you used to) and as for not becoming to
> static just hanging around the MOQ_discuss: we don't need
> conferences - invite people over for gatherings, create your own
> MOQ-cell and once in a while maybe we can all get together and talk
> MOQ over a beer in real life - so to speak.
>
> In fact - even though I only live in a small student room at the
> moment, my door is allways open to any of you who whish to come by:
> and if I create a small MOQ-cell here perhaps you would feel that a
> visit to Sweden could be combined with socializing with a few
> Swedish MOQers.
>
> So, this voicing of frustration turned into a plan, and I hope it
> sounds as good to all of you as it does to me lying here at the
> beach by the Mediterranean:
>
> Create our own MOQ-cells, and we have taken one more step towards
> spreading a Quality point of view.
>
>
> Have to go, will check in tomorrow
>
> Have a Good one
>
> Chris
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