[Imc-alternatives] any thoughts about the site name?

[lancaster-imc at riseup.net]

Amy, you are always amazing. You make sense to me, and I like your new
word "alternity. I think that what this is basically telling us is that
alternatives, however we script it into the official domain, is the name
we should stick with, for all the obvious, and as Amy points out, the
not-so-obvious. Greek philosophers believed life was not linear, but
cyclical, like a spiral--meaning at times points in history might resemble
other times--and many of us seem to agree that we are talking about big
changes in the indymedia network--and so I feel like many of the
discussions happening now, like these on the alternatives list, are much
the same as those that must have happened in the beginning--with everyone
jumping into an intuitive process--a streams of consciousness flow of
ideas. This is the way cultural evolution happens--when people can act and
create without feeling that sense of being alienated by your
ideas--without being held by the unwritten social norms we all deal with,
in and outside the network.

So, Amy and everyone, these discussions have been, and will continue to
be, a great inspiration to me--I feel like this is a grassroots
renaissance--that perhaps we have a chance to help Indymedia reclaim what
was set out in the beginning: which is essentially to provide not only a
democratic source of media, but a forum for thrusting the world closer to
a partnership model of society, or further away from dominator or
authoritarian social structures. Indymedia set out with great ambitions,
to create a web to trap the lion of corporate domination; in essence to
provide the kinds of tools needed in the digital age--tools that help
people be better organized and help facilitate the free flow of
information for people in the real world, offline, where we all need to
live and not only survive, but prosper.

Alternatives leaves all the doors opened for possibilities, real
commentary and the passionate tellings of truth, the positive ideas people
are sharing and participating in to help facilitate a better, more
equitable and non-violent global community.

OK, I had a great day, so just thought I would build on your stream of
consciousness with my own. Thanks Amy for your thoughts on alternity.

Michael

> i love the shorthand idea!! LOVE IT ! ! !
>
> alter.indymedia.org
> altern.indymedia.org
> alter-imc.org
> altern-imc.org
>
> any of these -
> YES!
>
> whoever compiled the list of 14 languages, brilliant!
>
> i think there is something deep here which has to do with... WELL ...
> alterity! otherness! and how we have to celebrate it and not run away
> from it. even the alters that are closest to us... like our brothers!
> the parts of ourselves that are confused and even destructive! we must
> engage all these!
>
> has anyone besides me noticed that we in the indymedia network seem to
> have a problem with precisely this concept?
>
> to me somehow using such a shorthand sums up the idea that this site
> could help indymedia itself move to another level -- though its
> "alter"ness -- as well as talking about the ways the world as a whole is
> trying to do the same.
>
> if none of this makes sense, please forgive me. i am immersed in jungian
> psychology.
>
> yours in alterity,
>
> amy
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