[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

[Paul Sanders]

On 5 Oct 2005, at 08:47, Jo Walsh wrote:

> The Lime made some local food retail
> establishments very happy to know that they knew us.

This of course is a characteristic of power relationships, as much as  
it is of loving relationships and of the bonds of community.

Jo took pleasure at being able to see what was going on more clearly.  
In my view this is not necessarily a virtue. One of our best defences  
against tyranny is our ability to avoid being seen. Freedom is rarely  
served by excessive monitoring, and the systems for monitoring are  
very easily used to monitor control itself. Purposeful inexactitude  
and ignorance is very hard, however, particularly when you are  
structuring and storing metadata.

One day I shall compose a pæan to vagueness.

This is a de-lurking post - I am the caretaker of the Knowhere Guide,  
online since 1994, and at http://www.knowhere.co.uk/ . It's one of  
the many ways communities document their neighbourhoods. I also work  
extensively in music metadata. Sadly I had commitments last weekend,  
but I have been following what I could remotely.

Paul
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