There was a point at which John Lennon made a decision to become a media hacker. He boiled his Beatles following down to a concentrated audience that could hear what he was saying. And then he acted, he didn’t wait. He said ‘War is over. If you want it.’ Imagine yourself at that crossroads.
Micro-Communities Work: If You Want It
Published in performance poetry politics risk tribes
Can we say what community through the Network is? Can we say what it can do? Has it proven it can do anything yet? Perhaps it's always already a distributed commune, but like the old days, no one can agree on which movie to go see.
I think thiat's what I was trying to tell Steve Gillmor yesterday on NGL. The great part of the web is community. If you want it. And I do, and I think many others to as well.