Bcc: contributors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:54:14 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: Allan Balliett Subject: What's Going On? I've been missing your insight, Richard. What's going on? -Allan Balliett, Purcellville, VA www.brces.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Linnea Carroll Meyer" To: "Richard K. Moore" <•••@••.•••> Subject: cyberjournal? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:31:42 -0700 Hi Richard - Is there some problem with the cyberjournal email list? I haven't received anything from the list since 6-26-01? Hope all is well - Please let me know what's going on - Thanks- Linnea Meyer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends, I guess this is the longest the list has been out of service ever since we started back in 94. In some sense, the explanation is that I've been preoccupied with making some money, and getting back into software development. But in another sense it's because I've been taking a rest from thinking about the world. Not that I was losing interest, but that I needed to renew my inspiration. Vacations can be very renewing, like retreats... they can bring new perspectives into view. What I've been doing for the past six years is trying to understand our predicament and our opportunities, in their various dimensions, and to articulate that understanding in writing. These lists have provided a forum which has been both supportive and appreciative of that endeavor. What I feel now is that I've pretty much said and understood everything I'm able to say and understand. After "Escaping the Matrix" and "Returning to our roots", I feel like I've 'been there, done that, got the T shirt'. Not that much better things couldn't be written, certainly they could, but I'm not the one who can do it, at least not right now. So what next? One possibility is a book. That would involve some reworking of the material, but it would be primarily a networking endeavor - talking to publishers and self-publishing services, and working out some appropriate arrangement. I don't know whether such a book would 'make a difference', but I'd like to get out there and give it a try. But not at the moment. The energy isn't right for that yet. What else? I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with moving my activities off the net and into the real world. It has something to do with face-to-face society. Somehow connecting activities with what really matters. I'm not sure how that begins, or what it would look like. It doesn't necessarily mean 'activism', at least not at first. It has something to do with learning how to be effective working with groups, regardless of what the group might be about. It's a personal growth thing, an empowerment thing. For now I can only leave that as an open question, as a focus of background attention... and stay awake to opportunities. As for our lists, what I'd like to do is devote one day a week to putting together a posting. I'll look over what's been sent in, and at news items and articles I've received, and pick a topic. The posting, as usual, would be a mixture of forwarding and commentary. Once per week might be better for you all as well - more chance you'd be able to actually read items, rather than save them for 'someday'. I leave in less than a week for California, where I'll be until the last week of August. Then a family reunion on Kauai. Monica, my Irish girlfriend, and her kids will be there as well for three weeks on the island. We've got our own cottage across from a de facto private beach at the end of a cu-de-sac back road. It promises to be the holiday of a lifetime. But I'll have my laptop along, and the posting-weekly scenario will be in effect. as usual, your thoughts are invited, rkm http://cyberjournal.org btw> Version 2 of the cybercredits system is up and running. It isn't of much use unless you have some community where folks want to exchange things with one another. In that case, the system registers transactions for you, much like a credit-card system does, except there's no bank in the middle.. http://cyberjournal.org/cybercredits/
