Story - I've been running into people here and there on these forums who machine out answers such as "Participate in public debates" or "Write to your local town official". As someone who cares about the environment (not insinuating that the people 50+ years older than me DONT care about the environment...) and long-term cancerous issues arising today [iraq, global warming, wars on ideas, integration of church and state, party-seperation of america, aids, cancer, viagra, networks] I got to thinking about what kind of effect public debates have had on issues in the past. I haven't really noticed any broad social reform or new technology arising from public debates. Mostly, I have witnessed complaining, people making outlandish observations, many other people debunking the outlandish observations, and people arguing arguments that have been argued a thousand times before with no clear answer.
Question - What's the last innovative social, political, or "freedom" based idea that has been spawned on this forum and taken root in our actual society? I would like to know, to be inspired to keep posting ideas in the hopes of progress being made. If anyone has any answer to this question, please reply. Thank you.
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Maybe for the moment nothing has been done. But here we put our ideas together, we start looking at the problems from other angles... Maybe here is where we will start from when actually doing a practical thing.
You mean, nothing has come out of this site so far?
How long has this site been up?
I doubt much, if anything has. Maybe some of the old users have done something worthwhile; I know Rangomino is setting up an independent press which will probably prove to be worthwhile.
I'm guessing since January. I signed up in April, catching the tail-end of meaningful posts before the influx of n00bs. This place has gone downhill big time.
You go, boy/girl. I'm right behind you.