StrypeyJun 6, 2019

'Permanent Holiday', #MikeLove:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=fU7hZ3smj0g

I think I've shared this video before, but if I did it wouldn't have been using the invidio.us link. For those who haven't come across it, invidio.us is a way to watch YT videos using #FreeCode #Javascript, instead of Goggle spyware.

Mike Love - Permanent Holiday (HiSessions.com Acoustic Live!)

www.MikeLoveMusic.com https://www.facebook.com/MikeLove808 Find HI*Sessions on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/his... The last song from Mike Love features another great reggae song, "Perm

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
'Permanent Holiday' is one of my go-to videos when I've feeling a bit down, as I have been over the last couple of days. Another one is this #FlashMob video by a kiwi group called #TheBabysittersCircus:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=9k4wM-NWEyo
The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [Official Video HD]

The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright [Official Video HD] I The Babysitters Circus (TBC) sono un nuovo gruppo neo-zelandese di musica funky/groove composta da Jason Kerrison, Jamie Gr

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019

Oops! That's not the full 'Everything's Gonna Be Alright' video. Here's the official version:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=VAtL9itQ0Nc

Hmm. Invidio.us search is usually pretty good but I've had to go to some effort to find official versions of some videos today.

The Babysitters Circus - Everythings Gonna Be Alright

The Babysitters Circus - Everything's Gonna Be Alright. Shot during a live flash mob performance in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.thebabysitterscircus.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/theba

Show threadStrypeyJun 6, 2019
#ShotsOfAwe is a channel I'd love to see in the #PeerTube video #fediverse (if it isn't already). This video seemed to speak to how I'm feeling at present:

'Beyond Anxiety and Depression ... A Call to Awakening!'
https://invidio.us/watch?v=cVQFAcdAhZM
BEYOND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION... A CALL TO AWAKENING!

WE NEED A NEW STORY, A NEW FRAMEWORK, A NEW DIRECTION FOR OUR SPECIES... WATCH! Videography: Jason Goodman Editing and post: Omid Pakbin Music: FLUXSEEDS

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@strypey The guy in the SoA video is certainly tuned to some proper stuff. He's not wrong. But o goodness couldn't he quiet-down some? How is it that such dopamine-driven folks feel that what the rest of us need or deserve is a high voltage charge of their emotionality?
Yes, it takes all sorts - but I'll be a lot happier about our collective future, when I see evidence that radical emos like this are acknowledging that many of us on this planet are of another kind. There are many ways. Respect?
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@mike_hales this is an intriguing response. I learned about SoA from a friend who is as cynical and anti-emo as they come. TBH I'm really surprised you found it so triggering.
Jun 7, 2019 at 8:45amWeb
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I'm a little surprised too - that I felt a comment should be made, rather than by my response. After a few sentences I could see where he was at - he's a very articulate and emotionally 'full' speaker - and appreciating how real and significant this is. But before he was halfway, all feeling of kinship and resonance was being overwhelmed by his pressure and his performance, hardly taking a breath, launching fresh waves - leaving no space for a listener to be with themself . .
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. . as if being overwhelming in emotional force was where the matter lies, rather than being accepted by someone holding their own space. For a person of my melancholic kind this is no unusual experience. But to find someone shooting themself in the foot in such a way is disappointing. Bcos this kind of self-absorption is rather present in activist fields - many like to participate in this kind of emotional torrent (as if it were the politics?) - I felt I'd comment. Not personal
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. . not personal strypey, you understand? Just taking opportunity to touch on this kind of issue within what IMO needs to be a deeply pluriversal transformational politics. Ppl come in different kinds and mutual recognition can be distressingly lacking across emotional cultures. There's a politics in this - assumptions that activism and solidarity are *like this* (in this emotional mode) rather than possibly *like this* (other mode). 2nd cousin to sectarianism? Takes all sorts!
Show threadStrypeyJun 7, 2019
@mike_hales thanks for the clarification. Took no offence, just hoping you would elaborate on your response, just as you did 😊
Show threadStrypeyJun 7, 2019
@mike_hales this reminds me a bit of conversation I had with some folks from a UK tech coop about an #Enspiral community gathering they attended, which they found a bit too much of a love-in for their taste. It seems to work for Enspiral folks and it's very much compatible with how I like to work as a community developer, but I acknowledge it's not for everyone. As you say, different strokes for different folks ;)
Show threadmike_hales 💔*!?¿*Jun 7, 2019
@strypey 'Love-in' is fine :) It's monoculture that's the problem I feel. It's hard enabling both kinds of tribes to be happily present in the same space - a room, a public square, a media space, whatever? I'd hope the Enspiral guys were good at this, being arch-facilitators.
>different strokes for different folks
More than this . . literacy in different emotional tribes' ways is part of the obligation on facilitative activists? Recognising both/all and shaping common space comfortably for all?
Show threadStrypeyJun 8, 2019
@mike_hales totally agree. I've recognized this as a paradox of facilitation. Too much dependence on particular formats or techniques can turn inclusive (multi-)culture into exclusive (mono-)cult. The only "consensus process" is the one everyone present agrees to 😏 As the #AgileManifesto reminds us, "people before process".