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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 ideas into the inexhaustible current. First they cast in words, ephemeral. Then they learned permanence; epochs brought clay 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 was a consummate standard. Life-giving waters slowed, intelligence waned, the elastic mind seized and crumbled. The word manifesto dates to the fourteenth century, but the notion dates to our earliest written conclusions.
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This is not the manifesto to end all manifestos. It is a message in a bottle that few will find. It is a loose model for dealing with the mountainous dam of manifestos that stop the flow of creativity, passion, and progress. At the risk of making the problem worse, I 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, fear nothing
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* Subscribe to that which you find value in
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* Mistrust labels, they carry unimaginable baggage
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* Acknowledge all that came before, but accept the utility of your journey
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* Never believe that you have the best vision for the world
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* Don't try to fashion the world to your ideals; your ideals are cursory
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* Be a maximal minimalist, distill purity from 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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=> ask-jone-001.gmi << [iii] Ask Jone!
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=> solderpunk_whats-the-deal-with-leapseconds.gmi >> [II] What's the Deal with Leap Seconds?
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=> index.gmi Circumlunar Transmisisons - Issue 1
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