From Nascent to Post Nascent with Effervescence

How long will it take to pass from this "nascent" stage to a more enlightened and post nascent stage, or is the essence of nascence to be savored and prolonged? In other words is the movements journey towards a goal ? Or is the goal actually the the movement's movement. I would not presume to make this sort of decision for any group. Personally just being marginally in contact with the people here is great. Any goal which, once achieved removes the groups Raison d'être would be counter productive. For me this group is like a "Fountain of Youth" bubbling with an effervescence of nascence, where being self-actualizes being.

Of course this an opinion and phrased otherwise the best thing to do is for us to be us.  There I said it, finally. So there we are, and lets get on with it.

 by Andy Jacoby

Plain English Translation

Seth asked: Can someone speak plain English. I do not have a phd in English or anything else for that matter.

First of all, thank you for pointing out two important problems: (1) more than one person should be writing this blog and (2) it should be written in away that (a) both captures the complexity of the plan definition at its most irreducible level and (b) states it in a way that is comprehensible to the intelligent layman.  

So for (1), in the Movement Making Moves post of 11/21, a call for more authors was issued and I'll repeat that here.  

For (2), I was proposing that we create a process in which content was gathered, classified, and analyzed systematically and collaboratively prior to being politically acted upon for political and personal enhancement.  RSS feeds are a way of gathering headlines and abstracts from multiple websites onto a single website that acts as a "feeder" of information to a person reading it.  From there, the information could be classified using the socio-cultural systems analysis based on the directness of its effect on the culture's material survival and then further classfied by geographic domain.  With these classifiers, teams could then be assigned to managing issues and troubles (the distinction is between whether they affect the culture politically or the social group personally).  From there we could act to enhance cultural awareness via publications, counter personal and political threats, further advance understanding via research extensions, design culture-changing methodologies, and create experimenting communities.

Figure 2 presents a process diagram. 

Figure 2. Older Judaeans access information from online sources and books.  Links and notes extend those online sources and books enabling them to tag and post them in social media (twitter, facebook or the Older Judaea RSS reader http://www.google.profiles/OlderJudaea/).  

Older Judaea thereby receives the input from a corpus of facts and perspectives.  At the same time, these Older Judaeans perform counter control promotives (verbalizing facts + motives) as they gleen from their sources concerns about the consequences of the identified trends, processes and phenomena for cultural and personal survival and success.  This too becomes part of the Older Judaean super organism.  Issue researchers refine specified analyses based on shared source tags (based on a model of socio-cultural systems analysis presented earlier in this blog).  Judaean culture analyses combine issues to develop larger ideological arguments that are selected for their relevance to the counter control promotives.   From this input and development, Older Judaea disseminates culture-analytic research outcomes.  These are then used to develop activist strategy (e.g., positive and negative consequences) and tactics (e.g., flash mobs, protests, etc.) to alter cultural trends, processes, and phenomena for the resolution of specific and/or general issues that challenge biological, social, or cultural survival or success.  In addition to cultural designs at the political economic level, they engage in online or in person experimenting community projects.  As a successive approximation, I have created a profile at http://www.google.com/profiles/OlderJudaea.  Click the My shared items in Google Reader and you'll see articles that I have shared for this example of "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) feed based on the model of socio-cultural systems presented in Figure 1.from 2 posts back.   To repeat, Older Judaeans will be collaborating on a project that accesses content online using social media technologies such as "Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to gather links to articles - for which an example will be provided below, classifies the content of those articles based on a natural science of culture, creates groups or committees to study articles sharing a common classifier to more closely describe the cultural process or phenomenon so classified, and then (1) disseminates the results of the discussion/analysis, (2) considers methods for countering threats to our cultural survival, (3) develops a working model that uses the content from #1 to analyze a larger picture of the situation (i.e., moves from issue analysis to a broader cultural analysis and methods for extending that analysis), (4) designs potential practical cultural practices for achieving #2, and (5) plans for the creation in our own lives of online and on-foot experimenting communities.

More Plan Definition

In the previous post, "Movement-Making Moves," a topical map was suggested for geo-socio-cultural-systems classifier tagging.  Another step for this nascent Movement Under Development is developing a strategy for accessing content systematically.  Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds that include searches are suggested as the primary tactic for content sourcing efficiently.  This blog connects to the gmail account ZionTalkracy -- the reader for which has many content feeds.  A next step is opening access to that reader people who demonstrate an interest in participating by sending an email to ziontalkracy@gmail.com or commenting below.  Change requests for this plan are also welcome via email or comment.

Once the RSS reader becomes shared among authors, posts can be tagged by their geo-socio-cultural-systems classifiers for future use and extension.

Movement-Making Moves

Approximately 200 people viewed the previous post and one person submitted an application.  Our membership list was expanded by an additional 7 people from within the email list. Therefore, we are up to 31 names.  


A next step is to enable shared authorship and administration of this blog.  If you would like to be an author and/or administrator, please indicate your interest by contacting ziontalkracy@gmail.com.  


As for moving forward, the following proposal is hereby presented for your analysis and clarification:

1. Whereas 

A. Older Judaea is derived from a history of participation in an American Zionist Youth movement, and 

B. Older Judaeans seek to collaboratively employ the greater educational resources that derive from their longer life histories, 

2. Be it Resolved that 

A. Older Judaea will promote a collaborative thematic style of socio-cultural systems analysis, design, and counter-control research to isolate and clarify competing cultural understandings through studies that fit into a carefully predetermined position in a larger research program for which an overview is provided in Figure 1 below (Harris, 2007) and  

B. The primary function of this research is to promote effective political action designed to alert and organize relevant actors to resist potential sources of Jewish genocide and American depopulation as well as evaluate, design, and promote an improved domestic economy for its constituents.  

  Figure 1.

 Finally, ]anna just sent us the following: "I just received the information below from Helen Weisberg.  Below is the link of the new flash mob dance that Young Judaea Year Course produced in Israel this week:" 

Flash Mob in Tel Aviv in tribute to Hadassah Medical Center

Harris, M. (2007).  Cultural materialism and behavior analysis: Common problems and radical solutions. The Behavior Analyst, 30(1), 37-47.

Judaean Across the Lifespan - an Emerging Possibility

Older Judaea preserves and protects Jewish-Zionist culture by extending Zionist-movement support beyond high school and the early college years.  Today's issues and trends in the social and political economies are more complex and troubling than those of yesteryear.   Under the enabling influence of online social media technology, former Young Judaeans are beginning to resume the activist-social collaboration of their youth in hopes of enhancing the analysis, design, and counter control of threats to the survival and success of Jewish life and lives.  

Older Judaeans will begin their movement's reconstitution by creating a large list of former Young Judaeans.  Simultaneously, list members will be asked to identify issues of social, political, and economic concern.  Issue themes will form the basis for organizing groups of ZionTalkers from the list of individuals who will asynchronously discuss, research, and formulate a framework for political action by a resurgent Zionist people's movement.

About Older Judaea

Older Judaea is for chaverim from Young Judaea who have aged out of the movement chronologically, but not socially or politically.  Current issues in our political economy are similar to those for which Young Judaea provided inspired and empowering leadership during our younger years.  We remain inclined to experimentally recreate and extend the social environment and research-based activism of our youth.

Older Young Judaeans may join Older Judaea by answering the following membership application questions and then by copy/pasting and emailing their responses to ziontalkracy@gmail.com.

Please answer & reply to the following:

Name:

Address:

Age:

Occupation:

Phone:
Interests, activities, and goals you would like to pursue in a mature Judaean movement: 

When you are generally free for meeting: M T W Th Sat. Sun aft Sun Eve