Link (third time’s the charm)

Ah yes, the ever-important link

Jim, i’m enjoying the sense of energy i get from reading your weblog.

I believe that the definitions you are offering for the second superpower make it very likely to be seen as some vaguely (or not so vaguely lefty thing, which would be a shame, because the second superpower is such a good metaphor. I’ve written about this a little — in my weblog AbbeNormal of course.

Please do let me know what you think.

Michael, I’d like you to point me to a URL where I can find out more about your course, Technology in the Developing World.

John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu

P.S. How do you edit your profile? How do you directly comment to individuals who have posted? Dave Winer, where are we when we need you. (I have been spoiled by using http://www.nicenet.org — thought this blogging site is very, very friendly. But shouldn’t there be link to where we can view the profiles of those who have logged on? And photo?>

Sometimes I think those of us inclined to agree with the Secondsuperpower don’t understand just how deep is the opposition. Mr. Thoreau’s post is a good reminder, and for that we should be appreciative.

I wonder what he would have said to Tom Paine after reading Common Cause?

John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs

Zack, it’s guys like you who make me get up at 2 a.m. to read mail and find new, exciting stuff like http://www.indymedia.org. It’s also why what used to be my absolute favorite thing on Sunday – immersion in the New York Times – doesn’t get started until noon…Tuesday.

Between this blogging site, C-Span and trying to tune out the moron pundits about the war, I have my hands full.

Thank you for pointing me to indymedia.org

BTW – I believe Jim’s article, Secondsuperpower is the Common Cause of this revolution. We need to promote it widely. We also need to have a mechanism that increases exposure and raises money. I have ideas about that, but this is not the space for same.

Your’s is an interesting post. Thank you.
John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs

I couldn’t disagree more strongly with Dave about King George; but his point about “all chaos, nothing gets done” and “one more blogging” site all hit harder than George Forman in his prime.

I have written Jim that I believe his article oould be to the Second American Revolution what Common Cause was to the first. I believe the first step is to advance his theories and get people talking about it. That’s possible given the tools available today, proof of which comes by way of http://www.moveon.org

What I say is missing – and that need not come from a revised or edited Secondsuperpower article – is both a plank we can all get behind and a mechanism that advances our own agenda and like minded souls. I believe the “plank” is “increasing access to classrooms where the cornerstones are pluralism, rule of law and humanrights”. I believe the mechanism is CandlePower.

While blogs are fine, I am not sure that those who wish to promote Secondsuperpower into something beyond which Dave says it will go – nowhere – we should hold, virtually, real time meetings. These help to reinforce visits to these pages and spending as much time reading what others have to say as they do writing stuff like this.

John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs

lol….ummm..bees don’t “offer” anything to humans. they produce honey, to which we help ourselves. and there’s a good reason beekeepers wear those spaceman-looking body suits. i’m sorry, but your understanding of hymenoptera is just not spot on.

viva le ant revolucion!

besides, bees make much more noise, which alerts one to their presence.

Mr. Moore, regarding the people of the Second Superpower, please consider using bees in your analogy. Ants are aggressive and violent, while bees work in harmony for the whole hive. As we all know, bees offer honey to human beings and live in symbiosis with them. I can’t think of one advantage to having ants.
Thank you for your article. It was inspiring and offered encouragement for working together.

thanks for that article ambimb! “Shock and awe has found its riposte in courage and wonder.” that’s a great sentiment! it’s kind of ironic that an article on supranational resistance is the cover story in a magazine called the The Nation tho