I was fairly hesitant to post this. A couple beta-readers pointed out that reifying “village” and “mission” in this way might anchor people, or create factionalization, in a way that caused more problems than it solved.
I also realized, during a second draft, that I didn’t have a clear cut goal with this essay. There is neither a clear principle I wanted people to understand, nor a particular action I wanted them to take. And meanwhile this essay is sort of throwing a politically charged concept into the eco-system, which I may not have the time to properly defend or ensure gets “used for good.”
I spent a few hours thinking “okay, I guess maybe I just won’t post it” and awarding myself Virtue of Silence points.
Obviously those points are retracted now. :P
I went ahead and posted it for two reasons:
I think the concept of the Village and the Mission do accurately describe what is currently happening. Even if they aren’t the right frame of what should be happening, it’s important to start with a realistic map.
Second, the whole reason I wrote this up this week (I’ve been putting off writing this for a year), is having recently had a couple conversations wherein the first thing I had to do was summarize this entire post, to get people up to speed on where I was coming from.
I settled on tagging the post more clearly as a braindump. I’ll try to write up some alternate frames on how to look at the entire system to avoid overly anchoring on the Village/Mission breakdown.
I was fairly hesitant to post this. A couple beta-readers pointed out that reifying “village” and “mission” in this way might anchor people, or create factionalization, in a way that caused more problems than it solved.
I also realized, during a second draft, that I didn’t have a clear cut goal with this essay. There is neither a clear principle I wanted people to understand, nor a particular action I wanted them to take. And meanwhile this essay is sort of throwing a politically charged concept into the eco-system, which I may not have the time to properly defend or ensure gets “used for good.”
I spent a few hours thinking “okay, I guess maybe I just won’t post it” and awarding myself Virtue of Silence points.
Obviously those points are retracted now. :P
I went ahead and posted it for two reasons:
I think the concept of the Village and the Mission do accurately describe what is currently happening. Even if they aren’t the right frame of what should be happening, it’s important to start with a realistic map.
Second, the whole reason I wrote this up this week (I’ve been putting off writing this for a year), is having recently had a couple conversations wherein the first thing I had to do was summarize this entire post, to get people up to speed on where I was coming from.
I settled on tagging the post more clearly as a braindump. I’ll try to write up some alternate frames on how to look at the entire system to avoid overly anchoring on the Village/Mission breakdown.