On the request of Silke, I'm not sending this to the commoning list,
but as a not to be forwarded reply to Christian Siefkes, to this list.
as you may now, communication between me and martin pedersen and massimo de angelis have not been peaceful lately, and things have not gotten better, by mistakenly copying Massimo on a private assessment that I send to our Greek friends, whom I asked to cooperate with Massimo, but at the same time warning them of what could happen, so that they would be on their guard
you are free to judge me for this mistake, AND for my assessment, but it was, and is, what I think, based on my experience, and I can't change that, we all experience things as we experience them, through our own personal biases and filters and reactivity,
so, here is my response to Christian Siefkes, who was shocked by my assessment, understandably so,
this is just, 'for the record', and I expect Silke, of the commoning list, to mediate in this conflict, but I expect that healing the antagonism is going to require staying out of each other's way for a while,
Michel
Dear Christian
SIlke asked me not to answer, but since you ask me, I guess I have to
share already, but provisionally, just to yout; however, it is the one I
would have send to the commoning list
Yes, I did sent this private letter, and
the googlemail demon made me click on massimo's name, talk of a freudian
slip; of course, I am not at all proud of this; now I wish I would make
a different assessment, but this is exactly how I think of it, based on
my experience
but, this was a private assessment, to one person, so that they
would not get embroiled in the same process as I here, in other words,
to avoid what is happening here; this is my duty to my friends: I invite
them to this dialogue, but they must know that if they are attacked,
not too take it personally; "it's just a matter of style of a particular
group of people and you have to know what to expect"
but please note,
- that what I was doing
was actually opening a communication line with greek activists, so the
context I was aiming for was to help both massimo to continue his
announced query, while wanting to avoid the communication issues that
plagued this list; so the aim was exactly that they could
communicate, without getting enervated as they would be aware of this
style beforehand, and think of it not as a problem, but as something to
be aware of, so as to avoid it;
- it is one letter to one
person, not a
smear campaign to destroy a person or seeking harm; there is nothing
systematic to it, one individual warning; in fact, throughout this time,
I have been doing the opposite, i.e. promoting the work of massimo and
martin, see next paragraph
- throughout this exchange, and for the last weeks and months, I
have continued,
despite the animosity between us, to blog, wikify, facebook and twitter
the views of both Martin and Massimo, making them reach audiences they
may not have reached on their own, since they are likely to reach a
different one; this is not the attitude of an enemy, nor an indication
of a smear campaign; but rather of someone who takes their arguments
seriously, and seeks to make them known to even more people; this can be
easily verified in the p2p foundation resources or by checking search
engines
- I do not
object to their views, even as I not share them, only to the
caricuturing of views they do not agree with, such as apparently, mine;
and again, I'm not the only one that has complained to be at the
receiving end of such style of communication
So, don't ask
me to be sorry to share with my friends my assessment of my experience;
and to give them a warning so that they can avoid experiencing the same;
that this should be shared accidentally is an error of my part; I'll
let you judge about the sharing of private mail yourself; but given the
circumstances, I do not hold this at all against Massimo, I can fully
understand how it must feel to get something like that: I would be
similarly shocked
however, I am also shocked of hearing I would bulldoze local
communities to impose them fiberoptic cables, am opposed to the politics
of indigenous people and what not; I sent my assessment of my true (in
the sense of subjective) experience privately; I have to get these
character assanisations over a public list. Frankly, I would prefer
Martin and Massimo would say true bad things in private, rather than to
have to hear such false things in a public forum.
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