"Respect" sounds good. I think I'll change it. I sort of thought "We
want peace" sounded lame but "Peace and respect" sounds good. Trying
to come up with something that would matter to people on a global scale.

I had no idea that Concordia played into the War Measures occupation.
Thanks for the history lesson.

Pall

On 10-May-07, at 9:38 AM, Barry Smylie wrote:

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I agree with your points. The whole "global" thing is always going to
be flawed. The only people who would benefit from any form of global
heterogeneity are big corporations (and maybe potential global
dictators). I've often wondered what it would be like if you could
get a huge chunk of the Earth's population to do something, anything
but the same thing at exactly the same time. And the Internet makes
something like that possible today. But then you have to consider,
what could possibly work as something positive all over the world.
Something that people might really want to do yet something that
doesn't assume any kind of "global" culture. Something that appeals
more to "human nature". I don't think going out on the street and
shouting about peace is going to do it. I'm sure that it would be
possible to come up with something that could take off and spread
like wildfire around the globe so you end up with a coordinated
global event but peace isn't it. The link isn't climbing the social
bookmarking sites and that's my success meter. Perhaps it should be
something really neutral and sort of silly. Like everyone turning
their heads to the left at precisely the same time on precisely the
same day. That way, if you do decide to participate and then notice
you're the only one, at least you didn't do something that draws
attention to you and makes you look foolish.


On 10-May-07, at 10:34 AM, Barry Smylie wrote:

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