Hi ALan, mmm,
I'm not asking for A mono-cultural and isolated thing here, more of a conscious effort by people to support each other, artists or whatever those communities may be. I feel that sharing and supporting others is an honourable thing to do - not for any religious reasons or official ideology, but because as an individual who respects others (humans), I want a better world to live in, therefor I must do something of value and not just care about my own singular entity. I have made the decision to bypass the 'heroic' stance of genius in order to seek a life beyond such distractions which really is more about childish fantasies and top-down control - in so many different ways in our cultures. I know it sounds corny, but I still believe in things like love and respect, and other equally silly things - I know some adhere to a post-human agenda and this is their choice, which is more about nihilism for the self and ignore others and their very 'real' contextual situations. I am not asking people to be like me, but I am asking for people to protect their cultures before it is taken away from them. Also, >for that matter the fibers this stuff goes out on - it's all >corporate. How we situate ourselves, how we fight abuse, those >are integral to this, but I don't feel withdrawal - which is >only an inauthentic withdrawal (in the Sartrean sense) - is any >sort of answer. It may all be corporate, but humans are not necessarily corporate drones, unfortunately many of us are engineered and (de)educated to be, and this is one of important points here - if we all fall into a fait accompli, absolutist or even such an emperical state of being of accepting what we are fed, then the battle will be lost, perhaps it is already... I really do not agree that SL is grass roots, although I do agree that it is populist which is not always a negative factor, such a thing can change things in our world and make brilliant things happen. SL, is centralist, successfully exploiting a digitally networked Internet culture, like google has. It may have been once, not sure though. One really cannot call it grass roots in respect of its reasons, function and purpose. But of course, all that is being discussed here is different reasons for our existence, ways of being - it all melds together somehow. wishing you well. marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
