Re: [-empyre-] this is not a spectator event ::

[Lloyd Sharp <lsharp@bigpond.net.au>]

> you all seem to have become a little shy in responding on list...
>
> for the list to keep going -empyre- needs your interactions, as guests will
> not  give up their valuable time if they get no response to thie posts.
> noone gets paid to be here.. the facilitators wont keep putting in time and
> enregy to seek out guests if there is no dialogue happening.
>
> Interaction is particlarly important in the next few months, especially when
> a reader is being produced from the June discussion.

hi
I still read everything that gets posted...
I noticed the posts dropped off almost coincidentally with the 
outbreak of war...

Things like depressing obsessive media war coverage, and now thinking 
about sars infecting us locally -another reminder of our fragile 
existence [been just watching some video of chinese locals forming 
armed vigilante groups to monitor entry to their villages and people 
committing suicide because they though they  or their partners had 
sars - that's wierd!] and thinking about bad people running our 
nations tends to interfere with our energy levels.

hmmm... just a though ...  the 'threat' of publication might not 
exactly encourage more open participation in a discussion. It kind of 
gives it a more serious tone and negates the freeform nature of a 
spontaneous email list where what you say may|should not have 
permanent repercussions...
The written form is already somewhat over overrated in it's value...