WE HAVE TO GET OFFLINE

[MacCruiskeen]

That is all.

Please no responses, for obvious reasons.

[freemason9]

What?

[MacCruiskeen]

¿Qué pasa?

Was ist los?

And I'm like, what the fuck?

[norton ash]

Get offline. Dad and I have to work in the morning. No buts.

[MacCruiskeen]

So, somebody calling himself "freemason", who chooses as his avatar a photo of the Supercool Smokin' Leader Obama, and whose tagline says:

The real issue is that there is extremely low likelihood that the speculations of the untrained, on a topic almost pathologically riddled by dynamic considerations and feedback effects, will offer anything new.

...is sceptical about an "untrained", unmanaged, collective, embodied effort by the Great Unwashed?

Quelle surprise!

Presumably what they're lacking is a Worshipful Master.

[brekin]

He's right. Everyone lets meet up at the hideout tonight around midnight
for another live R.I. General Discussion.

**And please don't forget your disguises**

[justdrew]

peckish? sir?

[Project Willow]

But the revolution is being tweeted.

And I did get off line and go outside but it doesn't feel real unless I come home and put it on Facebook, because there's no one else at home, which is abnormal for our species, IMO.

I'd love to go the Hideout!

Mac, why are you in a bad mood?

[undead]

So, somebody calling himself "freemason", who chooses as his avatar a photo of the Supercool Smokin' Leader Obama, and whose tagline says:

The real issue is that there is extremely low likelihood that the speculations of the untrained, on a topic almost pathologically riddled by dynamic considerations and feedback effects, will offer anything new.

...is sceptical about an "untrained", unmanaged, collective, embodied effort by the Great Unwashed?

Quelle surprise!

Presumably what they're lacking is a Worshipful Master.

Yeah, that guy is a total tool and a troll, never offering anything positive and just being a petty annoyance whenever the opportunity presents itself to make snide one-liners. Basically what you would expect from someone with that name.

[wordspeak2]

I hear you, Mac. I'm trying to find the right balance. I'm mostly off-line. I'm excited to have a new local activist "affinity group" that's raging right now. But everyone might not have such a community in person. And, obviously, nothing beats the internet for pure information exchange and memetics.
So how about two parts off-line, one part online? Something like that.

solidarity forever

[Jeff]

Wireless, maybe, makes a good metaphor.

Linked, but no attachments. (Not tangled, but entangled?)

Maybe the revolution will be podcast, but we can't just be the audience.

[semper occultus]

won't do much good if this is the alternative :

[crikkett]

Yeah, that guy is a total tool and a troll, never offering anything positive and just being a petty annoyance whenever the opportunity presents itself to make snide one-liners. Basically what you would expect...

Excuse me, who's trolling? Or is this just a personal attack?

[MacCruiskeen]

Mac, why are you in a bad mood?

Well, Willow, I cannot tell a lie: fact is, I got led astray, with vodka. Not my usual tipple at all, and I had decidedly too much of the stuff, in harmless-tasting cocktails, yum yum. So then it suddenly seemed very important to go online and tell people (online), in all-caps and in no uncertain terms, how important it is to get offline. Made perfect sense at the time.

Mea culpa, and apologies all round.

First the man drinks the wine
Then the wine drinks the wine
Then the wine drinks the man.

- Old Chinese Proverb

(See you in the Saloon later? I need a headache cure.)

[semper occultus]

..one of your better posts I thought mac...

better edit to add :