Why it is good to ask questions about 'experiments'

About six years ago, someone on the message board asked about something
called Transition Town.

It referred to something called "The Great Unleashing"

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The founder of Transition Town showed up.

Then, along came someone named Graham S who pointed out a few things

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Things got a bit heated

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Moral of the story?

Fact check, fact check and learn who is sponsoring feel good events.

Later in the discussion well informed participants reflected
on the risks of feel good projects getting tied to
political agendas. This was six years ago.

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So, the moral of the story is, if someone is offering
an enticing mass movement of any sort, learn about their backgrounds and their business/political and financial alliances.

Your attention is valuable. Why do they want your attention, and why tie it to some sort of mass movement?

This is to create a social scene, a social environment. What is the agenda, and whose interests are being served?

Meditation is intimate stuff.

And again, where there are crowds, there is power and money.

To manufacture a crowd is to create a gold mine.

Get evidence that the crowd growers are people who believe, really
believe, in the inherent dignity of the ordinary, unenlightened
bloke in the street.

You want to be involved with a project created by those who respect you
as a person, not regard you as just another unit that's a playing
piece in a big game you know nothing of.