Mary raised a question recently about something she calls, "The Elevator Speech". Suppose somebody asks you a question or somehow the subject just comes up, "So... What's this MoQ thing, anyway?" You only have the time between floors, to answer. What do you say?
I thought it was a good question and pretty hard to answer, but it led me to start thinking about the subject, and I found out when I looked inside, that I really want to know how to explain the MoQ to a 14 year old. Life's ripest subject - teenagers. Poor teenagers today. Lost in a whirl of competing flash and image, with no real impetus toward any of the classic disciplines. The three R's? Reduced to mere technical proficiencies and punctuated with drill and test, but how to think? That's a lost art indeed. So they need help, these teens of today. A way to guide their tender minds, a path of mercy through the thralls of babylon babble. A way of looking for themselves at reality and asking, "what is best". What value system do I use to judge between all the systems of philosophy and religion that compete for my attention? I believe such a question, if properly worded, would appeal to teenagers. We live in a rather computer-oriented world, so to get them to see that the MoQ is a different operating system than SOM, would make a connection in their tender little synapsis, where some light could come in. And I don't think I'd have any difficulty explaining the MoQ, even though its somewhat still in beta, it's pretty simple to offer it as an OS which takes into account, fundamental value. That is, that there is a reason for asking. Life isn't just randomly generated chaos or some whimsical fairy tale invenented by priests. SOM though, would be a bit harder to explain. More tedious. The idea that we can objectively choose, is false. We can't stand apart from our reality and judge. We are bound up and part of our reality, and our being is dependent upon the reality we choose! A twisted tiffany indeed! We are stuck in an endless hall of mirrors. And yet not stuck. There is a way of seeing through all this, and that's why I recommend MoQ .1b Even though it is in beta and SOM 3.0 is long tested and popularly adopted. That would take longer than the average elevator ride, but I think it would get through to a 14 year old. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
