Royal Bank Plaza Toronto by Amy
Allcock
It's been a
tiring week
-- lots of work, lousy weather, and everyone around me seems to be
suffering
from colds, allergies etc. My stress level is rising, because after
weeks of
improvement in my health, my fatigue level has risen (and my running
performance
dropped) this week -- the last time this happened was just before the
onset of
my colitis. Plus, my first out-of-country trip in months is coming up
next
week, and I find flying to the US gets more stressful with every new
xenophobic
regulation. And, just to make things worse, my laptop monitor has
shorted out
(HP Compaq this time, not a Dell -- nine months old). So if my blog
posts
suddenly stop for a few days, you'll know why.
This coming
week, I'll
be writing about Kathy
Sierra's
brilliant
suggestions
for
engaging presentations and conversations, about Jeff Vail's rhizome
theory (the
state of my computer permitting), and, in a multi-part article, about
George
Monbiot's important
new book
Heat.
I'm getting
increasingly
concerned about the (apparent lack of) scalability of bottom-up,
networked
actions -- having seen the ultimate failure of the Dean campaign, the
hopelessness of the US political situation when the only alternative
(the
Democratic party) shows it cannot offer any real alternative
to the
worst administration in the history of the US, and the struggle to get
Intentional Community, community-based energy and food co-ops and other
community-based models to catch on. It seems partly to be a matter of
attention
(not getting enough of it, thanks to the corporatist media and the
general
attention deficit, ignorance and cynicism of the public), and partly a
matter
of lack of urgency and lack of resources. We seem to be suffering from
terminal
inertia at a time when we are running out of time.
The floor is
yours. Tell
us what's on your mind, and let's have a conversation about something
you care
about.
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