Getting people all in one place is amazingly hard

[koganbot]

I don't pay any attention to local news, owing to its shameful neglect of K-pop, so it didn't dawn on me until about four days ago that there was an Occupy Denver. The weather's been mostly nice, and it's only a 25-minute walk from my apartment to Civic Center Park, where they hang out.

I feel a bit hypocritical for not getting involved, since I'm the one who strenuously insists that the major flaw of my musicwrite world is its unwillingness to focus and follow through: that the people in it don't know how to sustain an intellectual conversation and are totally unable to comprehend the need to persist on a topic, return to unanswered questions, develop rudimentary thoughts, work to understand someone's ideas, communicate their own, etc. Not that I expect anyone at Occupy Denver to do better or accomplish much of anything. But I doubt they'll do any harm. And as Mark said in WMS #13, getting people all in one place is amazingly hard, much less with at least the illusion of moving all in one direction, and persisting. So I may drop by, today or tomorrow, just to see.

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[koganbot]

suggesting that people use "I" rather than "we" could be part of such training

Well, could be part of such orientation (I don't mean to imply that "we" is somehow more violent than "I").