[ga] The GA and its Discontents.

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

If I remember correctly, Sigmund Freud starts off his "Civilization and 
its Discontents" with a discussion of illusions and delusions.

I think by this point many of us will recognize that ICANN is a delusion 
which is also an illusion.  

We have spent countless hours and neurons legitimizing this 
"organization" (I use the term loosely).  It is obvious what interests 
are being served by this pseudo-international "grass-roots" non-profit 
corporation (the only grass around is in their pipes).  What is not so 
obvious is why so many of us bother to continue legitimizing this (our 
common) delusionary illusion by not actively organizing outside of its 
"structure".   

I have offered worldatlarge.org as the rallying point. The AtLarge (as 
idea *and* reality) is not something to be trifled with, nor can it be 
swept under any carpets easily.  We have the ICANN ByLaws and the MoU 
and White Paper, we have AN AUDIENCE, and we have A MESSAGE.  

Over time I have incurred substantial expenses in my "participation" in 
ICANN from afar (a pittance in comparison with some I'm sure, but still 
a sum for me).  Now, I am ready and willing to turn these expenditures 
in time and money into something more proactive as opposed to reactive.

Feel free to consider this as the unspoken but much needed voice of 
REASON as opposed to EMOTION.  Hope is a fine thing, but Will is a lot 
more satisfying for bipedal vertebrates.

-- 
Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos

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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 
or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is 
actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives 
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, 
the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the 
end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while 
daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know 
neither victory or defeat."

-THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910) 


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