| famousringo said: From the way you're describing it, it sounds like you keep trying to either deal with an existing organization as an independant person, or launch a new organization yourself. Maybe it would be easier to join an existing organization? Institutions are used to having individuals join them, only dealing with other established institutions. If an individual comes to them as says they want to work with them, but not really join them, then they aren't going to be interested. Maybe I'm misinterpreting things. All the same, there is evidence that US society is losing what is called "social capital." Robert Putnam wrote an influential book on the subject called Bowling Alone: |
Ahh I do remember that book. I believe I still own it. It was part of researching the issue.
In my case, I end up starting things, because I find that no one is in an area doing what I was looking to have done. It would be a bit of "community organizer" work, where you ask people to come together to come up with answers for mutual benefit. Areas I jump into are of need, because it looks like they are no answers, like figuring out how to make chess more popluar (and other mindsports) to impact society in a more positive manner. And then my look to be able to address the unemployment issue. I figured that if there were lack of answers, that people would then work together to come up with some of mutual benefit, but didn't seem that way. Things I have run into have been...
With IAGO (abstract strategy games), I see there is a general belief that they can't grow the pool of players, so they decide they want to fight amongst themselves to grab what they can, and feel they put themselves at risk if they do so. This was even as it was important to coordinate regarding things like the World Mindsports Games, regarding uniforms. In that case, it felt like you wish someone would have at least the common decensy to come up with a rival organization to make IAGO pointless and obsolete, but no one does. Oh, I could go on about war stories about people who think they have "the next chess" (these are some of the worst people I run into), who saw myself had one business partner for one game spend over $100 for a sign, and then his partner accuse me of forgery for a memo of understanding I had signed. This same guy then asks about getting manpower at the county fair from IAGO, but then didn't want to have anything linked to IAGO. I wonder if Midway sued them for using GIF images of Mortal Kombat characters. I see a lack of belief combined with a fear of success.
With the employment group thing, I had been looking to position from a vocation angle, so it is bigger picture. I had seen individuals pop up, but not hang around, due to lack of answers. No one wanted to stay together to come up with new ways for doing things. With this one, i think on one has a clue on what to do, so everyone does their own business.
I will say I have had a bit more luck with CADERS. I have embedded in the Game Room community, and riding things out, trying to server. Willing to adapt as needed, but found I needed to be more of a driver with things, which I do. Live and learn, but just pondering the homan nature thing here and how to do things better. I do believe there is a room for a "PGA for Pacman" out there, or developing a class of player that plays a wide range of games of a similar tupe, to promote all the games. The drive for change in the world would make such a player of interest. And yes, generalists do exist. I have one person who totally dominates in the area of retro videogames and NO ONE can seem to beat him. Need to find more like this.
Well, I ponder on.
