[*BCM*] Massachusetts Bicycle and Turtles!
turtle
turtle at zworg.com
Wed Jun 28 19:18:43 EDT 2006
Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org> wrote:
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> Even though I may have started this, I politely disagree with Ian. The =
> debate is amusing, but shouldn't necessarily go away. I guess I was =
> looking for a little identity among the two sides. Turtle's general =
> advocacy for niceness, may be very good to temper the tempers of CM. =
> Turtle doesn't really ride CM (or does she??), but I like the voice of =
> cooperation.
Thanks!
I used to ride in CM regularly, first back in the early 90s when it
started, and then in the late 90s and early 00s. Then I got kind of
frustrated with the aggressiveness and stopped going. I think the last
one I went on was the memorial ride for Dana Laird.
I also stopped biking altogether for a couple of years when I was
working at MassBike, because I was too engrossed in seeing the bad
stuff everywhere from everyone. It drove me crazy. So I left and took
a biking break. Now I'm more balanced emotionally (having done a lot of
research on burnout, activism, Buddhism, sociology and psychology) and
have started biking a bit again (it's only a mile to work) last fall.
So that's my story.
> These lists are really like the radio, you get to change the station, =
> but not change the content.
Yep. Actually, that's pretty much life in general.
> (my secret agenda is to make people laugh, or laugh when Godwin's Law is =
> evoked) =20
I swear that last time it wasn't really at all about Mr. H.!
-Turtle
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