Hi marc, for me part of my culture is Second Life. I don't know why you think your description below is at variance from my own; we all want a better world to live in of course. Nor do I see where "genius" fits into this at all. In SL there's community and it's fairly grounded and smart and as political as you want.
- Alan On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, marc garrett wrote: > 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 > > == current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qh.txt last text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
