Harvey » Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:19 pm wrote:Perhaps we've never really tried to work together before because an open forum isn't necessarily the best way of furthering a post politics, post agenda brainstorming session. I'm not talking about furthering our private projects but perhaps learning how to ask better questions, for a start.
Clearly.
I guess the first thing is, who will take the initiative. I've been giving it some thought, but I don't think it's supposed to be me. I just don't give a shit enough. Or maybe that's a good reason why I should be the one to take the initiative. I don't know. But if anyone else is so inspired, I'd be interested in seeing where it went. I'm alright at asking better questions.
Wombaticus Rex wrote:I've had good luck in the past with parallel streams, generally a chat line for collaboration and shit-talking, and a file manager style repository of actual documents and datapoints.
I can see it now, 'RI secret party island' discord server. Group audio stream and shit-talking chatline in one. Simple to start an invisible, influential brain trust, here in the fyuuutcha.
Or we can all twitch stream, like the dopey gamers. Call ourselves the 'Pong fanclub.' Stream Pong, with our little front-facing camera feeds in the corner. No one will pay any attention to us, we'd be hiding in plain sight.
For files? Take your pick, I don't care. Now I'm going to repost the questions. I was going to take a shot at answering them, but I changed my mind. They're just going to fall off the front page again anyway. Good questions, though. They're worth keeping in mind, I think.
WR wrote:
What got shaken loose during the past 12 months?
What happened in the past 8 years that got overlooked by everyone, including us?
What can we re-build actual American Majorities around now? I mean, Canadian Majorities.
What are people ready to think about in 2017 that they wouldn't admit to thinking about in 2015?
Where is global capital weakest? Mainstream media? Federal law enforcement?
What if there are no policy-level solutions for the problems we discuss here?
What if "lowering the bar" isn't necessarily bad? What if that creates more opportunities for candidates with fringe beliefs? Like you?
What value does engaging with pop culture have when nobody who loved Stranger Things will read A Terrible Mistake?
And the only serious one I'm posing to us:
What sub-forum should we move the actual research to? No, really.