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This is a later thread in aan interesting list (techspirit).
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Caitlin.M.Rooney writes:
>"The last line of the quoted material is
what interests me most. When one speaks of the "promise of universal
connection without personal commitment" and the enthusiasm that would
create within the channeling community, I think one may be speaking to the
largest fault of what is described earlier in the quoted material
as white middle class American's attempt to tribalize itself.
That is, New Agers will not form a successful global community so
long as the net's annonymity and lack of commitment appeal."<
The qualities of this anonymity might be worth exploring further. I
think that one of the things that makes Net encounters so intense is
that they're stripped of all the "empty" formalities that characterize
real-world encounters--the ritualized greetings, handshakes, queries
about the weather, and other fillers that slowly ease people toward
more intimate communication. (As an anthropologist, I don't really
see these formalities as empty, but that's another story.) On the
Net, you just ARE (with an "are-ness" that is far more plastic than
in face-to-face events), which invites Delphic pronouncements, terse
exchanges, and the sometimes oracular quality of intellectual
exchanges on the Internet. It can be very exciting--indeed, more so
than the often dreary business of mediating disputes, achieving
consensus, etc. If you're not ready to join the emerging consensus,
you simply logoff But is that a basis for community?
mfb