[MD] A Rally Speech

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Perhaps not much to say about the fuzzy stuff, but about the cell thing, or 
the Marxism example, perhaps something of substance can be found?



> 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 caf?s  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 caf? 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 na?ve 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