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  10. From: "Whitney, Mara" <MaraW@fs-gate.uchicago.edu>
  11. To: jwesch@interaccess.com, "Zdunex, Jim" <jz@mcs.com>,
  12.         "Vitkauskas, Vito" <U19186@uicvm.cc.uic.edu>,
  13.         "Rose, Strata" <strata@virtual.net>, "Price, Jim" <opjap@mcs.com>,
  14.         nexus-gaia <nexus-gaia@netcom.com>,
  15.         "Martin, Tim" <martin@ulysses.sis.ualberta.ca>, Jorn <jorn@mcs.com>,
  16.         "Hellwig, Lisa" <lhellwi@delphi.com>,
  17.         "Griffin, Claire" <claire@asd.sgi.com>
  18. To: "Fraterdeus, Peter" <psf@mcs.com>, "Davis, Jim" <jdav@mcs.com>,
  19.         "Coyle, Karen" <kec@stubbs.ucop.edu>, "Clark, Judi" <judic@netcom.com>,
  20.         "Chisholm, Wendy" <w-chisholm@uchicago.edu>
  21. Subject: community
  22. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 09:22:00 CDT
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  29. This is a later thread in aan interesting list (techspirit).
  30. Mara
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  39. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 10:12:36 -0400
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  46. From: Michael F Brown <Michael.F.Brown@williams.edu>
  47. To: maraw@fs-gate.uchicago.edu
  48. Subject: community
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  51.  
  52.  
  53. Caitlin.M.Rooney writes:  
  54.  
  55. >"The last line of the quoted material is
  56. what interests me most.  When one speaks of the "promise of universal
  57. connection without personal commitment" and the enthusiasm that would
  58. create within the channeling community, I think one may be speaking to the
  59. largest fault of what is described earlier in the quoted material
  60. as white middle class American's attempt to tribalize itself. 
  61. That is, New Agers will not form a successful global community so
  62. long as the net's annonymity and lack of commitment appeal."<
  63.  
  64.  
  65. The qualities of this anonymity might be worth exploring further.  I
  66. think that one of the things that makes Net encounters so intense is
  67. that they're stripped of all the "empty" formalities that characterize
  68. real-world encounters--the ritualized greetings, handshakes, queries
  69. about the weather, and other fillers that slowly ease people toward
  70. more intimate communication.  (As an anthropologist, I don't really
  71. see these formalities as empty, but that's another story.)  On the
  72. Net, you just ARE (with an "are-ness" that is far more plastic than
  73. in face-to-face events), which invites Delphic pronouncements, terse
  74. exchanges, and the sometimes oracular quality of intellectual
  75. exchanges on the Internet.  It can be very exciting--indeed, more so
  76. than the often dreary business of mediating disputes, achieving
  77. consensus, etc.  If you're not ready to join the emerging consensus,
  78. you simply logoff But is that a basis for community?
  79.  
  80.  
  81. mfb
  82.  
  83.