064 - Our Town

064 - Our Town
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This image got us banned from a Flikr group that historically was open to all kinds of images.

Do you know why eventually all groups and societies die? Well, ignoring those which are destroyed through war, pestilence and other external agencies, or which disintegrate through internal friction between members, all groups have a natural lifespan that depends on interest.

Groups are generally established by someone or some group of people having a dynamic idea. Common interest draws people together and innovation occurs. Eventually, the innovators move onto other interests and those remaining who could take over are generally ousted by the kind of people primarily interested in maintaining the now established hierarchy. People who believe strongly in hierarchy tend to have weak care for people, and eventually this weak care for people, whose needs change over time, leads to the situation where the group's focus becomes increasingly out of step with the changing world.

Those people who could change the group's focus are treated shabbily by the hierarchists, who only care to continue the past as they believe what was will continue to be. A second issue is that people who believe in hierarchy will also import ideas from other hierarchies they are involved in, further narrowing the potential of the group.

The funny thing about this image being banned is that we made it as part of a program to reignite innovation from our moribund city of Lublin, which as a result of the work of hierarchists was the poorest region of all the nations that joined the EU in 2004. Some of the new hierarchists in the group we were banned from has imported their sex tabboo ideas from their culture into the group and WHAM!

This is my wife, she is not in a sex position but in a dynamic playful position, much as one would take when playing with a child or animal, she is ready to dance, to run.

She is also a woman. And despite being middle aged she is not ready to be discarded on the scrapheap just because the hierarchists in society want to condemn her to a nanny role because they cannot deal with anything else..