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What we need is hope, not vengeance.

I am consistently impressed by just how much I learn through storytelling. I built and tested a game where "theme" was a mechanic - in it, two alluring and almost-but-not-quite-oppositional principles wove themselves through the story over and over. I listed a bunch of established TV shows as examples. Hope and vengeance were he examples for BSG, a shitty world that I'd have been willing to live in at the time I watched it, because it has what I need.

And perhaps that is where I should steer my activism. Can I get the same strategic kick out of inspiring optimism as I do out of outmaneuvering and crushing an unjust opponent? Well, it's the maneuvering and outthinking that's funnest; the crushing ends the fun and leaves you around wondering what the fuck happened and what will you do now. Hope can have that. I think. Okay, well, maybe it requires a little vengeance.

But
Hope, Elchis, - as long as you're exciting and not bland, as long as you are about innovation and not a return to a status quo, real or imagined, and as long as I get to fight, may I be yours.

Amen.

(or "so say we all")

Crossposts: http://hundun.livejournal.com/280121.html

I'm excited.

That intentional community project? The one that I thought of in 2003, couldn't get to fly for me and I'd mostly shelved?

In the last two weeks or so:

On June 13th, I thought about why intentional communities interest me and why I'd want to live in some but not others
Around the 26th, I realized that a remote film studio would work for what I wanted

I put that together with my idea to invest in a shrinking community in the interior

More recently, I pitched it to people and received enthusiasm (thank you, you know who you are)

Three days ago, I realized that making this work involves applying a bunch of skills that I care about but didn't think I'd get to use. I have most of the skills we'll need.

Today, a shared housing project might allow me to test the foundational principles partially within the economic model

I just found out that a local currency in the works for Vancouver

Yeah. Things are good.

Crossposts: http://hundun.livejournal.com/279702.html

After doing some character-background research into the history of immigration to Canada, I've come (back) to the conclusion that

1. The history of nations knocks people around like toys.
2. Anyone desiring long-term stability and prosperity should acquire practical and/or salable skills (and a Swiss bank account).
3. We need a better geopolitical/economic system. This shit is embarrassing.

no_moon requested a tirade. I oblige.

( Premise One: Cultural Design is Possible )

I should explain that, years ago, I designed this calendar for "The Elchis Network," an intentional community federation or alliance or club or something. Each monad/node/polis/village whatever had some capacity for self-sustenance. They were by no means "entirely self-contained" (otherwise it wouldn't be a network) but a node could survive or at least hold out sans outside help. Furthermore, different nodes would not have to agree on everything, just the basics of federation would do - traveller's ettiquette, trade, these sorts of things.

This means that nodes could decide for themselves what various holidays meant; for some or for all. There could be federation day, which is universal, node day, which would be highly dependant

Furthermore, I think it would be desirable to encourge a fair amount of creativity and personal involvement in all festivities. It's a good community tie.

Suggestions?

So how to do holidays and weekends?
First of all, if the French Revolution tels us anything, people should have more holidays than before.

Two days off in a seven-day week is 20/70 off or 28.6% off.
Three days off in a ten-day week is 21/70 off or 30% off.

State holidays per year:
7: UK (plus bank holidays which vary by region)
10: Canada, US, Germany, Ireland, NZ,
11: France, Mexico
12: Zimbabwe
13: Argentina
15: Japan (21 for gov’t offices and many businesses)

So we get 10 state holidays per year (New Year's, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Canada Day, Province Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Remembrance Day, Christmas and Boxing Day) plus, in theory 52.18 Saturdays and 52.18 Sundays per year for a theoretical total of 114.35 days out of 365.25 or 31.3% time off.

Month        Date Range        Conversion from GC to NC
January        10 – 40             add 9 to the date in January
February      41 – 68            add 40 to the February date
March         69 – 99             +68
April        100 – 129          +99
May           130 – 160       +129
June         161 – 190       +160
July            191 – 221          +190
August        222 – 252         +221
September 253 – 282         +252
October      283 – 313         +282
November 314 – 343         +313
December    344 - 9                **

** If before the 22nd of December, add 343 to the date (344 on a leap year), for December 22^nd or later, subtract 22 to get the Day

October 4th, Sputnik Day and my birthday, is on 4+282=286
Valentine's Day: 40+14=54 (not to say it will be kept under the New Calendar)
Hallowe'en: 282+31=313 (which must be kept, possibly duplicated)

I like having a New Year that coincides with the Winter Solstice, making this Day 0.

Happy Day 0 of year... of year...?

2 006? I dunno. Pegging the calendar to start four years after the supposed birth of a schizophrenic pacifist revolutionary seems a bit arbitrary. Besides, there's no year zero and there's so much great date-specific stuff that happened before then, making somewhat confusing negative dates necessary.

Might as well start the calender back a ways. Perhaps tack on another ten-thousand years to it, making this the year 12 006. That should give us some perspective. So it's been twelve-thousand and six years since what? I'm sure something intresting happened twelve-thousand and six years ago.

This calls for a myth!

Input on appropriate myths, dates for a new year and what year it is are most welcome.

I often have dreams like this when I'm awake.

I find it wrong (counter-aesthetic, wasteful, immoral, bizarre, sick) that people are expected to become telemarketers if they want to have food and shelter. Would it not be more reasonable to pay people to not be telemarketers? If I wont to a store and they said that part of their advertising budget went to pay people to not do cold calls.... I digress.

Economics may or may not make sense but the economy is backwards, bizarre, wrong.

It should function like this: you/I/everyone interested work(s) to be part of a group that supports each other in clear ways. You see, are intimately familiar with the results of your efforts inasmuch as their reflection through others and oneself tomorrow.
Braintongue disconnect. (Late)

I see a corporation, a community, a lifestyle of integration and co-function and elegance and trading off and sharing the shit jobs because we all want to be a part of essential functions - and unity is immortality.
I begin to talk like Comrade Bjork and should sleep.

I think this can be done. I am certain that it can be tried.
More details to follow

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Entries tagged with elchis

Hope, Vengeance and Dice

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Holidays part II

Holidays, part I

Gregorian Calendar to New Calendar conversion chart for 2006

Calendars and Culture, part IV

Dream has two major meanings to me

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