Outro Post…
I’ve just had a long chat with @Asimong on the phone. He’s made me see that perhaps I’m not a great fit with 2R right now, and as a result I’ve decided to move on, at least for now.
There are two main reasons for this, as I see it.
The first is a difference in approach. I have approached it as an individual – finding a way to make everything fit together was hard enough on my own. Even trying to co-ordinate that with one other person’s ideas would have been impossible. Trying to co-ordinate with a whole group, as is the strategy here, would have been completely impossible.
The second is even more important and that is my beliefs about the fate of civilisation as we know it. I am absolutely certain it is going to collapse, and everything I believe follows from that. This doesn’t just involve an acceptance that the world needs to change, but that radical and undesirable change is coming whether we like it or not. It involves a major shift in psychology which has nothing to do with any voluntary desire to grow or change. That is my domain – that’s my audience. But I do not think it is an accurate description of most people involved with 2R. Here, it seems to be more that people are acutely aware of the urgent need for change, but are not resigned to (or from my perspective have not fully accepted) collapse.
I wish you all the very best with this project, and I’m not saying I’ll never post here again. Just that I’ve realised that however much we might have in common, at the moment I don’t really belong here.