Hi Liv. I think there’s a lot of truth in these statements, but I think there’s another side balancing it that is kind of hard to avoid—movements just start and grow, the grow from where they started, they attract people that were where they started—same dynamic happened in my past movement which I mention...EA started with young academics on campuses, that’s who populated it, it could have been much smaller and not controversial, but fate happened and big money came in and that’s what put it on it’s course toward all that’s happening now...You kind of just can’t help where you came from. So the question isn’t how can I change where I came from, but now that I’m here in my current reality, what can I do going forward to improve things? I have no real criticisms of how EA has done things, I love it, think it’s amazing, so grateful for it...I applaud the amazing young people who created it...but now with success it’s found itself in a new kind of crazy place...so maybe it’s time for some new energies within the group, I think diversity of all kinds and governance which empowers the new diversity is the path.
The problem with some criticisms is they imagine you could go back and change where you came from...the statements you gathered here that you’re asking for comment on kind of have that feeling for me...but I think some of it is very true now in the current reality...and it would be good to change some things, but it wasn’t planned or some huge mistake, it’s just how things developed from where it started.
Hi Liv. I think there’s a lot of truth in these statements, but I think there’s another side balancing it that is kind of hard to avoid—movements just start and grow, the grow from where they started, they attract people that were where they started—same dynamic happened in my past movement which I mention...EA started with young academics on campuses, that’s who populated it, it could have been much smaller and not controversial, but fate happened and big money came in and that’s what put it on it’s course toward all that’s happening now...You kind of just can’t help where you came from. So the question isn’t how can I change where I came from, but now that I’m here in my current reality, what can I do going forward to improve things? I have no real criticisms of how EA has done things, I love it, think it’s amazing, so grateful for it...I applaud the amazing young people who created it...but now with success it’s found itself in a new kind of crazy place...so maybe it’s time for some new energies within the group, I think diversity of all kinds and governance which empowers the new diversity is the path.
The problem with some criticisms is they imagine you could go back and change where you came from...the statements you gathered here that you’re asking for comment on kind of have that feeling for me...but I think some of it is very true now in the current reality...and it would be good to change some things, but it wasn’t planned or some huge mistake, it’s just how things developed from where it started.