By PJ’s standards I’m

By PJ’s standards I’m currently a member of TZM (I’m active in the Belgium chapter) There’s lots I don’t like about TZM, for starters the name. I’m still hesitant to talk about TZM and using it’s material because I think it’s incomplete and misleading/vague when it comes to transition. That’s why I try and avoid even mentioning “TZM” or “TVP” until I’m somewhat sure that the person I’m talking to understands the basic train of thought about whats wrong and what needs to happen. Often I don’t get to that point, though.I’m happy working on my own projects with some members of my chapter so I couldn’t care less about what happens to TZM.I’m also quite confident that the people who are already doing good work communicating the ideas will continue doing so regardless of TZM, and those currently “members” who don’t, probably won’t do much in a new movement anyway.We need the masses to understand what is wrong with our systems and the possible alternatives. The masses are very uneducated in general so it will take a lot of dumbing down and spoonfeeding thru visual media and the likes. That for me is the top priority of every activist. This is something PJ and others (including most of the Left) are quite bad at because of their stylistic use of all these complex words that will just fly by the heads of the masses.The occupy movement has done a good job inventing slogans and art that grabs people attention and is easy to understand like “we are the 99%” instantly creates the association with the inequality problems.BTW I completely agree w Brian above, and would like to add that I find it irresponsible to talk about a RBE as if it is already here or for the taking “if only we can get critical mass”We don’t have that level of infrastructure in place and likely won’t in the future. We don’t even have a working small scale model of a RBE yet and TVP is currently focused on making a movie *sigh* We need a LOT of democratic organizing and planning of work before we get to such an integrated automated system as TVP vision and presuming we don’t is likely the main cause why people view TVP as “utopic” and “impossible” and fill the void with their own dystopic imaginations. All that talk about “there is no democracy in a RBE” is definitely NOT helping.