Thyme to Get Howdt

Ideas are viral. When it comes to getting something done - everybody has their own approach to how they think it should be done. One of my roomies thinks that everybody should be flexible enough to pitch in on everything - if you don't garden, then you don't eat. If my intent is not in the garden, then conscripting me to the garden corps only builds my resentment. I should be able to trade my garden time to somebody else for some other service that i enjoy providing, and do better. Let the people who know gardens run the garden projects and then volunteers can assist when the time crunches come about (planting, harvesting, processing). If we form guilds that center around function, then proper division of labor means more free time for everybody.

The current system is cooked - so there is no need to abide by preset rules. To form a co-operative guild means to work with people to achieve common goals - give and take in the approach allows more latitude to discover. Our communities should share in the spoils of the fruits of our own labor. So hop off to the cooked link above and ask yourself - have too many of us been pushed over the line?

On another note - who are we when we say we? I can understand the concept of I very well and often deliberately use i rather then I to emphasize that i am me, a small piece of a bigger collective. But how big is that collective that i am talking about when using we. There is you and me. Then you and me and him (and her) and then us and our group of day-to-day friends, then our extended families and friends of friends and suddenly our we has become very populated, indeed. So when we use we, we really have no sense of the size and scope of amount of people that we are dealing with. People who use we to mean everybody have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads.

I like to connect with we in the you and me. The bonds that build strength with-in communities stem from elongated running conversations with a variety of people over a period of time. We appreciate values and forgive transgressions and just attempt to be there when we need each other. The more intimate the circle, the more we develop a sense of who fits where in our personal community context.

Defining the operating scale of what we call community can be done by creating a fractal of sports on education, where values are derived by comparative measurement. If the terms change so that the score is measured in win/win terms rather than win/lose terms - then standings can be kept and the reference can be used to teach concepts. Concepts can be applied at home and then contests held similar to those in the movie A Knight's Tale. Imagine form being like Hogwarts and Quidditch. So many potential models for freedom of thought.