Cross-posted on techPresident
In today’s spirit of getting things done, let’s take a look next at how individual citizens can involve themselves in politics using the internet and do it effectively. So before we all stampede straight off to talking about specific tools like usual, let’s think instead for a minute about some basic guidelines — rules of thumb which can apply equally whether we’re working on behalf of a candidate or a cause, and that’ll stay relevant as technology evolves.
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September 11th, 2008
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Writing on 9/11 is always strange; a shadow lurks around every mental corner, and words seem to lack the needed gravity. We live our normal days wrapped in the familiar and the comforting, forgetting that civilization is a thin veneer, that barbarism is not far back in our past or far away in our present. But on a day like this, we can’t help but confront our own and our world’s profound vulnerability. It’s a day to feel small, as history overwhelms us with its awful sweep — one unbearable morning frozen in a dense web of action and reaction dating back centuries and stretching forward until…well, others will get to tell that story.
What to do? Roll up in a ball and moan? Or get up and do something instead — let’s pick that. Let’s make 9/11 a day to Get Things Done, henceforth and for all our time. “The fate of this man or that man” may be “less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea,”* but even a tiny drop can make a splash.
– cpd
*T.H. White, The Once and Future King.
September 11th, 2008
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