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C I R C U M L U N A R
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T R A N S M I S S I O N S
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Issue One May 2021
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================[ MANIFESTO OF A GRANULAR IDEOLOGUE ]==============
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by tfurrows
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- - -[ Passing Thoughts of an Impractical Idealist ]- - -
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Our ancestors stood on the banks of the Euphrates and cast their
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ideas into the inexhaustible current. First they cast in words,
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ephemeral. Then they learned permanence; epochs brought clay
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tablets and papyrus, script and type, bits and clouds.
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Permanence dammed the river, a logjam of ideas tossed in as if each
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was a consummate standard. Life-giving waters slowed, intelligence
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waned, the elastic mind seized and crumbled. The word manifesto
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dates to the fourteenth century, but the notion dates to our
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earliest written conclusions.
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This is not the manifesto to end all manifestos. It is a message in
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a bottle that few will find. It is a loose model for dealing with
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the mountainous dam of manifestos that stop the flow of creativity,
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passion, and progress. At the risk of making the problem worse, I
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proffer:
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From a Message in a Bottle, Sitting Atop the Dam of Manifestos
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* Let your mind move freely, become a seeker
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* Accept that knowledge is scattered broadly
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* Find kernels of truth and germinate thoughts
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* Take something from every ideology,
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fear nothing
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* Subscribe to that which you find value in
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* Mistrust labels, they carry unimaginable
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baggage
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* Acknowledge all that came before, but accept
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the utility of your journey
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* Never believe that you have the best vision
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for the world
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* Don't try to fashion the world to your
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ideals; your ideals are cursory
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* Be a maximal minimalist, distill purity from
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immensity
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* Find, purify, share, repeat
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* To conclude means to cease to grow
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tfurrows@circumlunar.space
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tfurrows@sdf.org
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