16 Nov
2013
16 Nov
'13
9:04 p.m.
I am a bit sad about the comparison of the wonderful people of
sudoroom with a bunch of privileged mysoginistic egomanic dudes
responsible for many atrocities...
The metaphor that I think matches best for Sudo is the Nebuchadnezzar,
the ship from the Movie "The Matrix". Most people freed themselves
from the mind control of the system that we all grew up in, ok some
people still consume/identify with the old paradigm, some still have
to work for the machine but their heart not with it, sadly many people
still eat the toxic foods literally made by the machine, (which makes
us sick and creates more customers for the corporate matrix) ,
but for the most Sudo people are some of the most rad people out there.
I am not the only Neo in this story who learned that we have to
co-create a new reality instead of consuming the false reality of the
matrix...
lets keep vigilant for the attacks of the machines!
2013/11/14, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com>om>:
I think we could put a DIY dockyard at lake merritt,
undercut the
competition
Nov 13, 2013 10:57:45 AM, eddan(a)sudoroom.tv wrote:
I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia.
and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that.
It is often forgotten that there was a first
constitution of the United
States after Independence before the one that people call the
Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's
capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving
to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC.
It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy
that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen
the inconvenience of
this omission, and the assumption of power into which
Congress
have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new
system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new
States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal
authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the
principles which ought to govern such transactions."
As population grew and the country was further
colonized by the European
settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster.
Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective
interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own
alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and
forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as
the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the
"us" was "them". And
so on.
So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new
federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a
district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to
have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is
how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision
saying:
"To exercise exclusive legislation, in
all cases whatsoever, over such
district (not exceeding ten miles
square) as may, by cession of particular States and the
acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the
United States; and to exercise like authority over all places
purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in
which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines,
arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings."
I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and
arsenals and such, but I still
think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses
themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country
adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them"
into we
- did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that
made them united states.
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