From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 13:07:43 BST
Hi Arlo,
> Three!? I do agree that communication technology is a strong factor
> (structurating force?) in these types of cooperative endeavors. What I do
> think it demonstrates nicely (besides being a global, multi-lingual
> resource) is that people can find motivation to spend considerable amounts
> of time working towards making something for which they receive no material
> rewards (the articles do not attribute credit to any author).
Speaking of underlying assumptions, one of yours appears to be that I am a
material man. Au contraire. I consider art and beauty the highest rewards
of life and living. I thought my many posts over the years regarding same
would be make that rather evident. But I have nothing against acquiring
wealth because it allows one more latitude to enjoy the finer (higher
quality) things in life. As one of my favorite sayings goes, attributed to
Steven King:
"There is fine Waterford crystal which rings delicately when struck, no
matter how thick and chunky it may look, and then there are Flintstone
jelly glassed. You can drink your Dom Perignon out of either one, but
friends, there's a difference."
> My belief, of course, is that as people see the flaws in materialistic
> ideologies (I bet Ham is sorry he got me using that word!), they will adopt
> more community-minded behaviors. This will be a ground-up swelling emerging
> from individuals, not from government programs.
Love that "not from government programs." So long as the government stays
out of it, I'm all for whatever emerges from the "ground swell."
Platt
P.S. Thanks for concern about hurricane Denis. Fortunately for me, it
passed to the west of where I live. I got hit last year. Once in a
lifetime is enough.
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