3/19/2004 11:36:00 AM

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jason clark : emergent-uk: what happens when the talking is all over?

jason,

you are unlikely to see them as the majority do not have any of the signs of organizational life that we have come to associate with institutionalized common cause. many exist in a shadow culture; a loosely joined patchwork of people in local geographies. answering your question would mean giving you names of families and friends and colleagues with unique configurations of overlapping connection to their neighborhoods, friends and cities.

i too tire of the banter re: the need to change. i think that many people and communities already have and are no longer contributing to "the conversation" (whatever that is), because the conversation is simply repeating the same questions year in and year out. i agree with you regarding the GenX/Emergent-thing being programmed and promoted to death as if they were some kind of demographically sensitive advertising campaign. i think that your final question, though, may still be asking for something that is lived out along organizational vectors. there many not be many great examples of this within such parameters.

Cheers,

dan
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