Re: why Berlin?

+1, in terms of language I would also consider the breaking down of walls
something creative rather than destructive !

Markus

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>wrote:

>
> On 13 May 2011, at 10:28, Daniel Harris wrote:
>
> > There is an unfortunate philosophy pervading through society at the
> moment that we've got to destroy what exists before we can then build our
> new, beautiful, better world. And I see all the children are picking up:
> that in order to solve a problem you have to "take it out". It's unfortunate
> because what we see if an incredible amount of destruction in the name of
> building a better world. Also by the time we have destroyed the old world we
> are so exhausted that we haven't got the energy to build anything better.
> ;-/
> >
> > But, that is not what's going on here! We are build better tools for a
> better world! So, let's just "accentuate the positive" in the language we
> use. Let's just describe what we are actually doing. We're building a better
> world.
>
> Ah that is to misunderstand the Berlin wall. Its fall was not an act of
> destruction. It was about the end of a futile confrontation between titans
> that were set to destroy the world. As you can imagine it was not the Berlin
> wall that kept them physically apart. If you go to Berlin you will see the
> wall is not that thick and it was painted with interesting graffiti
> http://www.berlinwallart.com/ . No the Wall was a state of mind, that made
> each side think they had the answer to all the worlds problem, that all had
> to be done one way. It was a symbol of non-communication. Tearing the wall
> down was an act of pacifism, not of violence. In fact right after the fall
> of the wall, people rushed over and started kissing each other.
>
>
> > The old world will wither, die and rot from disuse and neglect. No need
> to break it. Let's not focus our attention on the old world at all. Every
> look back is and moment lost in looking forward. Let's keep our focus on the
> new world we are building.
> >
> > I don't see any of us with a hammer is our hands. I see us all using
> tools for creation. I am not breaking anything. I building.
>
> A hammer is a good tool. But we come with all kinds of other tools of
> course. Power connectivity tools that can link everything together.
>
> >
> > So, please, let's buck the trend of solving problems by "taking the bad
> stuff out". We're not doing that anyway. We're breaking nothing. We're
> building everything!
> >
> > Get it? ;-)
>
> yes, but now put all that in one tweet! :-)
>
> >
> > I told you I'm a bit of a stickler for language and the psychological
> effects there of. ;-)
> >
> > Cheers Daniel
> >
> > On 12 May 2011, at 18:41, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> >> Hi Henry, yes, nice analogy :)
> >>
> >> Personally I consider the "breaking down the walls" part the
> straightforward first step.
> >> The second step is then to build new communication patterns and services
> that we can't really imagine yet in today's centralized and homogeneous
> social networks.
> >>
> >> Markus
> >> --
> >> blog: http://danubechannel.com
> >> phone: +43 664 3154848
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
> wrote:
> >>> This could be the tagline on the top of the http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/page
> >>>
> >>> Berlin is where the first wall fell. Join us there to start breaking
> down all the others.
> >>>
> >>> Henry
> >>>
> >>> PS. see the picture in http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2008/Papers/MSNWS/
> >
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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