the tribal thunk

Hi,

I want to apologize to anyone who has read the references
to the tribal thunk idea I was discussing last week
privately with another list member.

I see that some people, upon reading that, think that I
advocate some sort of system where we do a 'vote off the
tribe' sort of thing. But that is not what thunking is
about at all. Thunking is about a reality check.

For those who are interested in what I actually said, I
put what I said in the original emails over in the
metatuning group for anyone who wants to know what it's
all about.

I myself find the entire idea of voting off the weakest
link or whatever to be fraught with errors, fallacies, and
lies and never advocate such a thing. Look what happened
in China and the Soviet Union earlier this century as an
example. Yes those who perceive themselves as strong _can_
dominate and destroy those they perceive as weak. That is
what Mao Tse Tung did -- killed all the intellectuals and
teachers and artists and religious leaders. And took China
from being a marvelous center of culture and ideas to a
third world country that can only steal ideas from others
and produce cheap junk with slave labor in a single
generation. Not to single China out here either, we got
plenty of people like this here in the US as well (I am
thinking of Thomas Edison as one of the more notorious
examples.) And sure they can keep dominating and stealing
but after you've killed everyone who is 'a threat' because
they are actually -doing- something with their lives, then
what?

But I like the idea of tribal rules in the spirit of fun,
though as you'll see in my post I gave up on the idea of
any mandatory rules.

I think rules are helpful only to the extent that they are
voluntarily accepted as a tool to get our own acts
together (and by that I mean me), whether the rule domain
be life, art, composition, engineering, whatever.

Thanks,

Jeff

On 5/20/01 12:46 PM, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to apologize to anyone who has read the references
> to the tribal thunk idea I was discussing last week
> privately with another list member.
>
> I see that some people, upon reading that, think that I
> advocate some sort of system where we do a 'vote off the
> tribe' sort of thing. But that is not what thunking is
> about at all. Thunking is about a reality check.

Microtonal Survivor?
Tuning Boot Camp???

"You are the weekest thunk. GBYE"

REALITY INTERNET!!!

This is getting fun.
I'm thinking up a new synergy pair for this.
Someone liked the "resurgence of melodrama"...