Stop intellectual inbreeding!

[originalravesta]

To all you kids who constantly hang out with the same groups, read the same boards, and email the same people over and over again:

It needs to stop!!!

Get out there in the world! Find new circles of people to share your ideas with. Don't be such a stranger. If you don't make any attempts at this, you find yourself going down along with all the open-drug parties targetted by the government.

Self-regulation is key, but if you don't circulate you will find the waters becoming very muddy...

This was a public service announcement by: Raver against overindulgence and self-hatred.

Peace-n-respect!

[Justin]

Wouldn't that be social inbreeding? I'm not flaming, I'm only saying that because when I saw the title I was like "Word! I'm tired of universities turning out ten thousand writers who sound the same and write the same dumb stories on the politics of identity.*"

*Which is really bad, and needs to stop.

[originalravesta]

Pretty much... Intellect is the tool for social change, and if everybody is keeping to themselves and "their own" social groups, there is little chance to influence or help the collective consciousness...

Yeah, lots of university professors take part in this kind of inbreeding..Most students don't realize it and are easily taken in..

~keep your neurons happy :)

[ZupanGOD]

Originally posted by originalravesta
Pretty much... Intellect is the tool for social change, and if everybody is keeping to themselves and "their own" social groups, there is little chance to influence or help the collective consciousness...

Yeah, lots of university professors take part in this kind of inbreeding..Most students don't realize it and are easily taken in..

~keep your neurons happy :)

Up with the individual! Down with social engineering/collectivism.

-JAson

[originalravesta]

Originally posted by ZupanGOD

Up with the individual! Down with social engineering/collectivism.



What does that mean?

Collectivism is just a way of defining the human psyche. For example: Take some great, provocative art. Put it in a big museum, publish it all over the place, let it seep in. It has entered our collective consciousness, meaning most people have seen it and absorbed it.

Just because not everybody has artistic license doesn't mean that everybody doesn't benefit from art.

Are you schizorphrenic or trying to spread anti-schizophrenic vibes? Because anyone who doesn't realize that we are all individuals must certainly be a schizo. :P

[balloon kitten]

Originally posted by originalravesta
Get out there in the world! Find new circles of people to share your ideas with. Don't be such a stranger. If you don't make any attempts at this, you find yourself going down along with all the open-drug parties targetted by the government.
So... if I don't find make a conscience decision to go to a place I normally never would, and meet someone I normally never would, you think I'm inbred? :rolleyes:

*steals a page from HexReRe's book*
*ignores copycat ravesta*
*winks at everyone else*
*humps air*

;)

[originalravesta]

Originally posted by balloon kitten

So... if I don't find make a conscience decision to go to a place I normally never would, and meet someone I normally never would, you think I'm inbred?

If you wrote what I think you wrote:

You are an inbreeder if you constantly talk to the same people, day in day out, rarely meeting anyone new or making contact with anyone but yourself.

I'm all for individualism, capitalism, and living a private life...

[Yungrii Mobliatri]

hello .


this is yungrii .


nice talking to you all .




TADA.

[INFINITY]

no matter what we do we will always be harrassed by the government. So how does spending extra effort finding new friends help with avoiding conflict?

[Tecknowledgy]

Good try, almost made a some valid points.

[originalravesta]

Originally posted by Tecknowledgy
Good try, almost made a some valid points.

Let me guess... you are anti-capitalism? Or you didn't like the crack about all work and no play?

~happy neurons

[Tecknowledgy]

No, you're just a jackass.

[A.J.]

Fuck You :)


*returns to isolation chamber*

[groovinkim]

you might be interested in this:
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/14/nyregion/14TALK.html

these people sit on the street in NY with a sign saying 'talk to me'
it's an article about what happened to them
you'll have to get a logon for the nytimes if you don't have one

you also might like this:

Reclaim the Media: a Community Media Convergence
http://www.reclaimthemedia.org & (206) 709-0558

SEPT. 10-15
Various Venues

Scheduled to coincide with the National Association of Broadcasters’ (NAB) annual radio convention, Sept. 12-14. A vibrant mixture of panel discussions, open forums, major speaker events, music performances, do-it-yourself (DIY) media & wireless tech workshops, and creative activism are planned --- all within a context of media policy education, creating and supporting independent media models, and coalition-building towards a broad-based, quickly evolving media democracy movement.



oh, and i agree wholeheartedly.

[originalravesta]

Originally posted by INFINITY
no matter what we do we will always be harrassed by the government. So how does spending extra effort finding new friends help with avoiding conflict?

Well, not exactly finding new friends...

More of having a decent (positive) attitude and making quality educational connections with new people... After all, with a crooked (but well-crafted) word or two, you can "make" anyone your friend. Yah know? The whole brotherly love thing?

Isn't politics the science of conflict resolution? The world won't heal itself. And the treacherous are ever distrustful...

ooOOoo... radio convention! neat =)

[A.J.]

Im sorry, but I deem you unworthy of life....

*BAM*

Can we lock the thread now on grounds of pure boringness?

[originalravesta]

AJ,

Come now ~ Boring is as boring does.

Maybe *you* are boring... ;)

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or discovering something that is true.

~happy neurons

[Tecknowledgy]

Originally posted by originalravesta


Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or discovering something that is true.

~happy neurons

Wait, didn't you forget to mention PLUR in there?

[EviLKat]

^^^^ SMUR is the new PLUR... but anyway, I don't necessarially like everyone outside my 'social circle.' People are so dumb sometimes, I just don't want to deal with them. *Shrugs* I'm always up for making new friends, but I tend to be sort of judgemental. :rolleyes:

[A.J.]

Originally posted by originalravesta
AJ,

Come now ~ Boring is as boring does.

Maybe *you* are boring... ;)


~happy neurons


hahaha, good call.

Ya asshat :)

[originalravesta]

PLUR! :rolleyes: