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I don't know the full scale of what you do, but it seems to me that it is not based on greed, but on understanding how a system works - and then using that system to help encourage what you believe in. A kind of moral professionality.

I have the same thing: humour is a kind of transactional method for trying to change life as you see it. I don't see what I am doing now as something to really change the world, but as something that does check how the world is - in a very small corner of the world.

From the professional point of view. I know how to produce movies and TV series to a budget, and I sort of know whether they will 'open eyes' or not. I am never sure, but I do my best. For me the best rewards have been letters or communications from people that say things like "The absurdity of what you are doing gives me hope".

That about sums it up.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 01:48:05 PM EST
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And much appreciated.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 02:11:05 PM EST
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It is often forgotten today, as a result of an unhealthy media (and religion) bipolar promotion, that there is no such thing as black and white. Being human means being a shade of grey.

I think, in purely personal terms, most of us DO, internally, have a sense of black and white - but socially that is seen as a shade of grey. A negotiation between these two viewpoints is actually what society is about.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 02:30:57 PM EST
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I want to say something that may be perceived as trite or condescending (if that's how you spell it). It is not intended in that way.

I have never joined anything in the past, because I don't like people speaking on my behalf, and saying things that I don't believe in, or have not yet thought about. I'd rather fight my battles one by one, than have someone fight my battles for me using methods I do not agree with.

But in the case of ET I am happy to have ET speak on my behalf, and for Jérôme to speak on my behalf. I have never been the slightest bit ashamed of anything said here. Because if you would examine the record of what has been said about any subject, you would realise that ET is essentially transitional, in that views are being moulded and changed by interaction, rather than museified by assertion.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 02:47:38 PM EST
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Coming from you, that's high praise indeed...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sat May 19th, 2007 at 07:01:00 PM EST
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I expect I'll now have to be loathsome to correct the balance ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun May 20th, 2007 at 07:23:36 AM EST
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