[MD] A Rally Speech

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Fellow MOQers, philosophers and internet alter-egos.

I feel I must express my discontent, and what sometimes borders on anger 
towards the MOQ_discuss. The reason for this, you may feel is unjustified, 
and perhaps it is, but it is a low-quality feeling about the way things are 
going in general that I will try to explain and then come up with some kind 
of solution for.

I am, as you may know, quite a bit younger than most of you, and at that I 
am known to my friends as the person who always voices the grandest, 
seemingly unreachable visions, and who whants things to be done _here_, 
_now_; and to be done in a grand sort of all in- fashion. In all fairness I 
submit this basic trait of my persona (I have, sometimes described myself as 
having the heart of a fanatic, but thankfully not the mind of one) so that 
you know where I'm coming from when I continue, but I also submit that I 
from my experience with working with the student union and various 
administrative university organs I do understand the Value of procedures, to 
haste slowly, and to get things right ( and indeed I am Swedish, and since 
that's basically the nature of our entire nation it should come naturally to 
me one can think ;-] )
- As long as there is a clear vision of the goal - the grander the better - 
there is no problem in the slow proceedings I feel.

The problems arise when the visionaries grow old and tires, and like the 
revolutionaries of the 60's end up on cafés  in small groups, talking about 
a revolution among themselves, a revolution they know, deep down, will never 
happen.

The MOQ_discuss, as I see it, is a kind of café where philosophers, young 
and old can get together and discuss their ideas with each other  - and that 
such a place exists is indeed a grand thing.

But me, beeing who I am, am not happy with just this. I want to see more. I 
want to see us pick ourselves up and make the revolution happen! I want to 
see us be Dynamic, start rolling the snowball etc etc. And I know; a 
metaphysical shift is an extremely slow process, and I know, it's not that 
easy. But frankly-

I don't care.

Most of us believe that the MOQ could be the most important thing since 
Socrates, and true or not, if we believe that we need to show it to people! 
We need to do Quality work.

If I had the money I would start an Academy, build a MOQ headquarters and 
start a "Order of the MOQ" (and insist everybody wore silly moustaches or 
something like that) - or something (yes, yes I know it's static and all 
that, but it's just tools, and we need tools)!

Now: to the somewhat more concrete part:

I have gotten a few people to pick up "Lila" by speaking to them about 
Marxism and the MOQ in connection, people have found the connection quite 
interesting and have wanted to explore the matter for themselves: a Good 
hard example of how things gain much better clarity through a MOQ view, and 
that does get people interested.

Finaly: I urge you all to be visionaries and naïve with me. Start preaching 
more (I know you used to) and as for not becoming to static just hanging 
around the MOQ_discuss: we don't need conferences - invite people over for 
gatherings, create your own MOQ-cell and once in a while maybe we can all 
get together and talk MOQ over a beer in real life - so to speak.

In fact - even though I only live in a small student room at the moment, my 
door is allways open to any of you who whish to come by: and if I create a 
small MOQ-cell here perhaps you would feel that a visit to Sweden could be 
combined with socializing with a few Swedish MOQers.

So, this voicing of frustration turned into a plan, and I hope it sounds as 
good to all of you as it does to me lying here at the beach by the 
Mediterranean:

Create our own MOQ-cells, and we have taken one more step towards spreading 
a Quality point of view.


Have to go, will check in tomorrow

Have a Good one

Chris