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lines beyond grieving…

Mitch Ratcliffe: What is the Net, marketplace, commons or temporary autonomous zone?

Anyone who cites Oliver Wendell Holmes, is fine by me… and to invoke taxation, no less: you know, taxes being the price we pay for a free society and all that.

Mr. Ratcliffe is proposing that, instead of regulating the internet “commons”, we should actively set out to broaden that idea… oh, but he says it better anyway:

The Net is a means to increased freedom and free communication of ideas and opinion is an end in itself. Without the wider context of the question of an American dream of a better world for our children and an international dream of a better world for everyone’s children, free of hunger, ignorance and dogmatism, among a whole slew of human suffering that we might inflict on one another, the Net is just a distraction from the serious issues of policy that are reshaping the world as one where competition exists without cooperation.

I usually start the day with a quick scan through Google’s news site, but memigo looks like an especially promising alternative.

And I think it’s just a guy. One.

Worldchanging: Another World Is Here

This is mostly a reminder to see the kinds of things this ‘blog pulls up. There are some interesting things here.

Especially, I think, the link to something called Bio-Memetic Architecture, which seems quite bizarre and linkworthy.

Waking Up – Selections – by Charles T. Tart

I don’t have time to do more than scan this right now. He seems to be saying some interesting things about psychology and spirituality. Hopefully, I’ll read this later.

And…. Alex Burns’ dissertation on Gurdjieff: it’s fascinating and resource rich (just check out all that linkage!). I may have read this before, but it bears linking to and rereading, even so.

psychonaut terrence mckenna and a vasty collection of mp3s of him speaking…

voices from the dead, indeed…

Matt Stuart flash photo gallery.

Eat it up yum, my photog!

Sisyphus Shrugged – intrablog metarant

I’ve never read an “intrablog metarant” before, or at least not one labelled as such, so it seemed worth pointing at (is that what these things are? finger-pointing? many-fingered Ganesh (or is it Vishnu) pointing this way and that and there and whichway and whatway?). Some interesting points, though.

Send Them Back!!

I’m especially fond of Method #3….

“Call Me a Bush-Hater” by Molly Ivins

I like that Molly Ivins. She’s got a nice head on her shoulders; some of that good ol’ Texas straight-shootin’; a good dose of that home-brewed Southern common sense:

It is not necessary to hate George W. Bush to think he’s a bad president. Grownups can do that, you know. You can decide someone’s policies are a miserable failure without lying awake at night consumed with hatred.

Poor Bush is in way over his head, and the country is in bad shape because of his stupid economic policies.

If that makes me a Bush-hater, then sign me up.