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It's your turn.
Jonathan Cross
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This new years will be unlike any
other. I see a great opportunity for change that has been due for a long time.
2000
is just an arbitrary date, but it can serve as a symbol of change. In this
sense the coming of the next millennium will be a big event simply because
people believe it will be.
Every year people use January 1st
as an excuse to make changes in their lives. But 2000 will be different. Thousands
of groups are forming right now, taking advantage of the World Wide Web as
a way of creating small international communities.
We are becoming less dependent on a simple mass cultural perspective and instead
people are inventing their own systems. By creating a community of like-minded
people with its own rules and goals, a space where things work differently,
a group can literally create a new reality. The importance of creating these
groups is that like artists, they can show us alternative/better ways of doing
things.
Creating new communities that do
not follow the rules and conventions of mass culture is a political act. By
their very existence, these communities subvert the established system by
offering alternative options and redefining what is possible. People will
be confronted with the frightening option of making real choices
about their priorities. This will eventually take people out of the passive
situation they have considered "normal" and put them into an active position
where they must make their own decisions and take responsibility for those
decisions.
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It's your turn.
Jonathan Cross
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This new years will be unlike any
other. I see a great opportunity for change that has been due for a long time.
2000
is just an arbitrary date, but it can serve as a symbol of change. In this
sense the coming of the next millennium will be a big event simply because
people believe it will be.
Every year people use January 1st
as an excuse to make changes in their lives. But 2000 will be different. Thousands
of groups are forming right now, taking advantage of the World Wide Web as
a way of creating small international communities.
We are becoming less dependent on a simple mass cultural perspective and instead
people are inventing their own systems. By creating a community of like-minded
people with its own rules and goals, a space where things work differently,
a group can literally create a new reality. The importance of creating these
groups is that like artists, they can show us alternative/better ways of doing
things.
Creating new communities that do
not follow the rules and conventions of mass culture is a political act. By
their very existence, these communities subvert the established system by
offering alternative options and redefining what is possible. People will
be confronted with the frightening option of making real choices
about their priorities. This will eventually take people out of the passive
situation they have considered "normal" and put them into an active position
where they must make their own decisions and take responsibility for those
decisions.
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It's your turn.
Jonathan Cross
|
|
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This new years will be unlike any
other. I see a great opportunity for change that has been due for a long time.
2000
is just an arbitrary date, but it can serve as a symbol of change. In this
sense the coming of the next millennium will be a big event simply because
people believe it will be.
Every year people use January 1st
as an excuse to make changes in their lives. But 2000 will be different. Thousands
of groups are forming right now, taking advantage of the World Wide Web as
a way of creating small international communities.
We are becoming less dependent on a simple mass cultural perspective and instead
people are inventing their own systems. By creating a community of like-minded
people with its own rules and goals, a space where things work differently,
a group can literally create a new reality. The importance of creating these
groups is that like artists, they can show us alternative/better ways of doing
things.
Creating new communities that do
not follow the rules and conventions of mass culture is a political act. By
their very existence, these communities subvert the established system by
offering alternative options and redefining what is possible. People will
be confronted with the frightening option of making real choices
YOU
HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE...
You can be an active agent in the creation and direction of your life or others
will gladly take care of it for you.
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It's your turn.
Jonathan Cross
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This new years will be unlike any
other. I see a great opportunity for change that has been due for a long time.
2000
is just an arbitrary date, but it can serve as a symbol of change. In this
sense the coming of the next millennium will be a big event simply because
people believe it will be.
Every year people use January 1st
as an excuse to make changes in their lives. But 2000 will be different. Thousands
of groups are forming right now, taking advantage of the World Wide Web as
a way of creating small international communities.
These metaphorical communities give like minded people more power to make
themselves heard and their ideas taken seriously. Associations such as "web
rings" give people the ability to join similar web sites into a semi-cohesive
entity.
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It's your turn.
Jonathan Cross
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This new years will be unlike any
other. I see a great opportunity for change that has been due for a long time.
2000
According to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, we already missed the second millennium by 2637 years!
