Not for me; not yet. I see it as a generational change. If you can avoid passing on your neuroses (etc.) to your children (a reverse-Larkin), they will have time space (and connected consciousness...or sommat ;) to...evolve ideas...because an idea that works has effects beyond the person having the idea? Because an idea is a holistic map?
I think our best ideas (as far as I have read) came out of the sixties--linked strongly to intelligent and positive people taking LSD and boom! Out came...a new idea of consciousness (?) in the...consciousness of those whose consciousness had been expanded (the ego as a small grey cloud trail filling 10% up high in the sky where self-consciousness lives?)...
Yack yack!
But anyways, networked computers; enviromentalism; humans as one species connected out to other species on continua (continuums?), consciousness as larger than "self" consciousness (and what self can see that? T'is strange...beyond the "ego", "trapped in one's own head" consciousness?)
So...yes. Energise Europe. I wonder if we're all waiting for Jerome to take a next step here. Or Colman? I'm happy to facilitate the process in any way people prefer--but here, in diaries and comments...I live in England and zipping around to meet people would be...a lot of unnecessary travel...coz there are lots of you better placed...
I'm not sure what put the brake on; people taking time to chew on...ideas...as their consciousness expands to deal with possibilities (and positive shocks where possible)...
So, if anyone wants me to post diaries which try to sum up what's been said so far (I can read--thankfully for me--and if I sum up wrong a comment can put the debate right..etc...etc...)
As Migeru mentioned elsewhere, the Commission is not a legislative body; as I understand it it has a role something like the UK House of Lords, so how can an organisation which only acts as a check on decision making effect those decisions effectively?
I still think at this stage language is key. The phrasing...well, the ideas...coz good language is good ideas...good expressions...new expressions?
Good to read you, yeshe! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
The potential leverage of the Commission is so huge it makes me weep to contemplate it. It can put its finger in every pie in every country, at every level from local to national (up to global), in every walk of life. It can certainly influence AND it can lead by example.
And being in the language industry myself, I can tell you that the Commission is constantly having to make up new terms (then it's accused of jargon-mongering) for new things. Like Subsidiarity. Many of my translator colleagues roll their eyes and spit, even when asked to translate terms like "Governance". Because they just don't have the concept in their language (I'm thinking of the Finns and the Portuguese in this instance). Boggle, mind! But the point is, there are phenomena emerging out of our transnational work that cannot be described using existing terminology that belongs to national phenomena.
Are you really offering to sum up all our zootle-woordles here? That could be a stupendous service to the whole.
I thought (and your corrections, yeshe, are just what I need, so correct away!), yes I thought that the Commission was stuck with its national blocks, but you are suggesting (if I've understood correctly...big IF) that there is some heavy cross-fertilisation going on.
I was offering my services to the ET project to write an Energise Europe document or documents, but if you can point me in the direction of your zootle-woordles I can tell you just how far (or even close) I may be from (or even to) summing them up in some way.
At any rate, you have me intrigued and interested in the...possibilities, so by all means...er...my going rate at present is one big bundle of lossalaffs on a regular basis, plus drinks at any human meet up moment thing, so, hey! Tell me more, or just point me in various directions.
(Well now, you know I was just pretonding to not know the power of the commission...
verb: pretond to be unaware that you knew something and when you find out to realise you didn't quite know what you were unaware you knew, which is why you probably forgot you knew it in the first place.)
And a good weekend to yez! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Can't blame you for getting mished up in the intricate weights and balances of who blocks what in the European Union.
Good weekend to you too.
