[P2P-F] P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 10, Issue 37

Tue Oct 11 09:21:22 CEST 2011

I'm a bit surprised to read your dialogue.  I agree that "keyboard 
intellectuals" could benefit from diving into the crowd and free their 
affect and cry a bit into oblivion with the street poets.  It's always 
an eye opener to change perspectives, and behind a keyboard, all the 
keys tend to end up being square.  Not that I have anything against 
Deleuze who spent his life between walls, but I think the air of the 
places has a nice scent these days on our unique Spaceship Earth.

One of the very fundamental aspects of the success of this movement so 
far, lies in the ability of the people to leave their old clothes and 
wear the mask of anonymity: it's urbanism realized, beyond the safety of 
individualism, beyond the point of isolation, into a new opportunity for 
anyone to re-adjust their own relationships without feeling the burden 
of previous choices, that were necessarily wrong.  It's not a tabula 
rasa, but an important cleanup for a lot of people.  If I had to blame 
someone in these days, I would blame the chair, for it keeps me from 
moving my ass and dancing with my fellow humans, leading to indifference 
and apathy; I would blame artificial light, for it hurts my vision and 
makes me forgetful of the sheer number of stars in the sky, each an 
unknown and beautiful possibility; I would blame linear time, that works 
perfectly for machine and process synchronization, but makes me dull and 
forgetful about the fundamental irregularity of my pulse, and the power 
of affection.

The time to fight against is now past and obsolete: we need to build the 
ways and means of our consistency, following the integrity that has 
brought momentum, and understand that walking together with trust, we 
project the force that will eventually make violence fail en masse.

Cheer up,

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hk