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Date:         Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:56:06 -0500
Reply-To:     DAIZEE Scooby <gtadaizee@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         DAIZEE Scooby <gtadaizee@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 14 Feb 2013 to 15 Feb 2013 - Special issue
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:28:53 -0600 From: Jarrett Kupcinski <kupcinski@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Friday Philosophy: On Community One of the more interesting threads on the Vanagon List this past week = had very little to do with Vanagons. Ostensibly about beverage holders = and Canadians (are they one in the same?), I say =93interesting,=94 not = because any reasonable person should care in the slightest about either = of these phenomenon. Although a well designed cup-holder is cause for = celebration, the discussion is worthy of note because it was in a larger = sense about community. A successful community is an amazing thing because it is a whole greater = than its parts. Unfortunately, the calculus which permits such emergence = is unclear. It=92s not simply about having a mass of qualified members; = there is not really a community of toaster owners any more than there is = one of brown-haired folks. The success of a community may once have been = about location, but the Internet broke that boundary. Obviously, for a community to work, something needs to be shared. = Interest in Vanagons, a degree of fluency with English, and a tolerance = of email from people we=92ve never met are all qualities we have in = common. And questions, answers, stories, and rants--in short, = information--are the glue that keeps us together. We follow rules = (mostly) about things like content and message trimming. But again, = those parts don=92t equal up to the whole. Kind of like the vans we drive. I=92ll admit my bias here: I grew up with VW campers, and so I own one = now. Because I own one, I like hanging out with folks share that lunacy. = I know there are other car groups out there, but this one seems more = successful than most. I can=92t help but wonder if some of that success = is due as much to our differences as to our homogeneity. We are composed = of folks who can rebuild engines blindfolded and those who believe both = ends of a wrench are dangerous. Daily drivers and weekend(er) warriors, = Syncronauts and Westy pilots. Amateurs, vendors, mechanics, engineers, = artists, and the odd philosopher swell our ranks. My, but we are = diverse. Kind of like the vans we drive. Jarrett K Olly, 89 Westy made up of parts, parts, parts= ------------------------------ Well said Jarrett!

Zee that's ZedEE or DAIZEE aka gtadaizee


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