More goodness from Stirling. People wonder why I’ve been obsessed with politics and blogging for the last three years, and Stirling gives a good hint of it here. When my “real life” friends nod their heads and sigh “Yes, I know how you feel, but what can we do?” when I go into one of my political rants, the bloggers I read keep fighting, keep speaking, keep doing. I get the same charge from my MoveOn friends on my email lists. This is our purpose, online – educating, sharing our ideas and what we’re doing, linking people to other people who feel as they do and are doing something about it.
A Union of Purpose, indeed. Stirling means it as a union of progressives and Dems, and gives a good account here of how and why it is working. All worth a read, as usual.
A Union of Purpose: The Dime’s Worth of Difference – The Smirking Chimp
It is the world of internet politics that has made Net Neutrality a signature issue, it is the world of internet politics that has made energy and global warming focal points of their political agenda. It is why, to some extent, Albert Gore has risen from the ashes to become an elder statesman of the party, a figure who has put a stamp on the Presidential race, by not entering it.
This third critique looks at the power of internetworking, social networking and open source society to produce vast wins in terms of culture and happiness. In a society where most people are unhappy with their jobs and their opportunities, people in the electronic world are almost obsessed with their work, they bring it home, and to their coffee houses and to their dreams. The new politics doesn’t go home from work, it is home in its work. How long has it been since the rest of society said that?
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Blogging, The Purpose Driven Strife
More power to you that you can do this. For my part, I’ve decided that the only way to fight is to live differently. Like Dylan says on his new CD,
“I’ve paid my time, and now I’m as good as new,
I’ve paid my time, and now I’m as good as new;
They can’t take me back unless I want them to.”
I agree, John, we do have to live differently.
And show others how to live differently as well. Be the change you want ot see in the world, and all that.