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- I'm one of the people who kindled the first sparks of what became Dark Mountain. It started with a blog post that Paul wrote, back in 2007, that struck a chord with me. We got together to talk about starting some kind of journal, and from that grew all kinds of things that neither of us imagined.
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Rebalancing the Network
Posted on June 3, 2011 at 15:15 17 Comments 13 Likes
As some of you know, I've been struggling with what this site is for over the past few weeks.
In its other manifestations - the books, the festival, other face-to-face events and collaborations - Dark Mountain has been a space of reflection and thoughtfulness, something that's never had a one-liner or a soundbite. This deliberate difficulty invites people to slow down, to stay with their uncertainties and puzzlements, to live with the unknown rather than trying to conquer…
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I'm not sure what originally lead me to Dark Mountain, but you may be right, it could have been Paul's debate with Monbiot. I've been following the Guardian for a while.
Could do, perhaps. Drop me an email with your phone number and we'll talk it over.
Cheers,
~ James
Agreed on the voting. It's always struck me as rather illogical that anyone should tick a box, once every three to five years, then expect that alone to achieve anything. Doesn't seem to happen in any other human endeavour, why would it for voting? A vote is just the start.
Or should be.
Interesting one page read, and a nice inversion of expectations of change. Vote for the lessor evil and make/be the change yourself. Nice.
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Thanks for the message. I have left the debate alone now for fear of swamping it, but I love a good debate with open-minded intelligent people and I think there's a good chance I will pop down on Thursday. I will sign up.
Kind regards,
Matthew
I look forward to coming to the pre festival if I can make it.
Dark Mountain seems to lend itself to poetic output & I couldn't miss the opportunity for a bit of subversive advertising;) I'm really enjoying riffing off ideas that surround the project - hope to make the next wednesday meeting.
Phil
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