World Tango Party

Seize the Moment

Raúl Ilargi Meijer at The Automatic Earth has a new post that reprises a post on Beppe Grillo and I’ll use that as a spring board to roll out my meditations upon politics and the internet which might be summarized as “I wish someone would emulate the 5 Star Movement so I could join.”

In my thinking about how to react to the world wide ecological threat I came up with the idea of the World Tango Party. A ‘Party’ both political and celebratory that would organize globally and perform as a political party in individual countries. A ‘Party’ that would use artful means, artful memes to create a new pattern of what is cool, reducing the allure of consumption by inspiring emulation. I think we should form mesh networks extending around the world via the internet to work together.

I’m building a web site to present the ideas that I imagine. Since my pastimes at Shedville, digging holes and splitting wood, have been passed on to a new Occupier, I am at loose ends and will fill some part of my days in Chiang Mai, Thailand, puttering with web pages that reflect my preoccupations with collapse and politics.

The immigrants who came to Buenos Aires and created the world of Tango where men and women gather together in safety to trust themselves to each other and dance — are my inspiration.

I’ve created a set of PAGES that reflect ideas I would like to see a world wide community put into action. The very first approximation of those pages is listed below and I’ve made a few notes next to some titles. I’ll explore and expand. Some pages are empty now.

The pages of World Tango Party will be my project.

Artful Means/Artful Memes — 1.The thinkers and doers behind the Occupy movement. 2. Kickstarter
Breathing
Buddhist Economics —
Cultural Capital — Can we draw on our Cultural Capital — of Buddhism; sports; music; dance; cooking; cricket; to meet, prepare, cushion the approaching catastophres?
Evolution — It annoys the shit out of me that human beings can’t act as reasonable, rational actors and stop destroying our environment. I can’t help it, although I hold the contradictory rational thought that evolutionary analysis means we can’t.
Growing Political Citizen Networks — 1.I really like the organization structure of HelpX. 2.I have this idea that civil society in communist occupied eastern Europe organized opposition through the ruse of sports organizations. 3.I’ve lived in two countries now where I’ve seen cultures that support community — The Netherlands and Thailand.
Mesh — mesh potatoes
Music
Paper Ballots/Ballot Styles
People are People — The Buddhist sangha, community, in Thailand is an inspiration
Politikos — the Five Star movement organized by Beppe Grillo and the eminence grise, Gianroberto Casaleggio. I can’t find anything about the history of how they used the internet to organize. 1. Lambert Strether of Corrente and The 12-point platform. 2. The paper ballot and voting styles 3.Secondary currencies 4.Corporate incomes tied to lowest wages for governments and companies receiving government subsidies. 5. Beppe Grillo insists his councilors and candidates stay off TV too 6. Occupy — an inspiration but I found their emphasis on no personal stories self defeating — stories are the story in my way of thinking
Stories — Zen and strawberries — We are over the cliff, hanging on to a root, animals above and below. Pick a strawberry.
Successive Approximations — Don’t expect anything here to be final. I personally am just an ant carrying a burden supported by quantum effects at sub-atomic levels. Recent research offers a tantalising hint that, instead of avoiding molecular storms, life embraces them, rather like the captain of a ship who harnesses turbulent gusts and squalls to maintain his ship upright and on-course. As Schrödinger predicted, life navigates a narrow stream between the classical and quantum worlds: the quantum edge.

This post is also a way of saying Hello to web site/bloggers who I watch and enjoy. Often I want to comment in extended form on what they post.

1. Automatic Earth and Raul Ilargi with today’s post on Beppe Grillo — in a way I’m most immediately moved to imagine the World Tango Party by the internet activation of the 5 Star Movement. Where is the follow on activity of their success????

2. Jesse’s Cafe Americain

3. Ran Prieur

4. Lambert Strether of Corrente and The 12-point platform and Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism

5. Ugo Bardi, Cassandra Legacy,

We are over the cliff, hanging on to a root, animals above and below. Pick a strawberry.