{"id":408,"date":"2014-12-13T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=408"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T11:34:26","slug":"mont-as-a-humble-club-of-voices-based-on-collective-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2014\/12\/mont-as-a-humble-club-of-voices-based-on-collective-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Mont as a humble club of voices, based on collective support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nous sommes tous montagnards, vive la montagne!<\/em><\/p>\n

We are all Montagnards, vive La Montagne!<\/p>\n

Slogan used in an address to the Jacobin Club, 1793<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Just a small update, the Mont Order Club<\/a> has recently added a new member to our small community of writers, as we dedicate efforts to help one another. When working via\u00a0the online spheres of the Order, we should put nothing else before the Order, i.e. the mutual success of each of our\u00a0associates.<\/p>\n

Our latest associate, J. M. Porup, is a futurologist and dissident interested in me mutually publishing an online discussion thread with him, and also the creation of mutual links to boost our traffic. Such a link and discussion will appear at my web magazine\u00a0ClubOfINFO<\/a>, even if I also place a link here on the L’Ordre blog.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I encourage my readers to visit J’s blog<\/a>, download his books on Amazon<\/a>\u00a0as I recently did today, and of course leave reviews for them as you have been generous enough to leave on my own books. J’s work is hugely interesting and quite in agreement with my own, and has focused on criticism of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) exposed spying practices, as well as analysis\u00a0of matters of privacy and security. I first encountered J’s ideas\u00a0via the Lifeboat Foundation think tank and via Twitter, and have found\u00a0all of his points to be compelling and striking contributions that are worth studying.<\/p>\n

It would have been\u00a0ideal if a longer or more content-rich post could have been created today, so I apologize for the shortness of this one. My only excuse is that I have been busier than usual filling the issues of the ClubOfINFO blogs for release during the week,\u00a0and meanwhile this post has to go up at the usual weekly time.<\/p>\n

I am happy with how the Order has grown as a club, and I hope to brainstorm new ways of making it effective\u00a0and worth participating in to increase its appeal to current and future participants.<\/p>\n

I reiterate that the Mont Order does not hold a specific ideology, nor is it really a “secret society” in the dramatic sense really implied by that term (I myself fell into a trap of using that term when introducing our name to J) although it is a humble club of writers who shall\u00a0aid\u00a0each other. Despite not being a party\u00a0in itself, the Order does not object to its members holding ideologies or leading entire movements of their own, radical or moderate. I feel we should insist only on one criterion for members: that\u00a0they\u00a0be proven dissidents, or they will have no real place in our\u00a0Order which is meant to be\u00a0a\u00a0radical niche of\u00a0social catalysts with highly technical and practical offerings for\u00a0social change.<\/p>\n

In that spirit, the Order\u00a0and its\u00a0immediate circles and movements should all aim to be practical and helpful to one another, satisfying each other’s requests for aid and backup on\u00a0the blogosphere, and I believe our capacity for that can only increase as new writers and new circles of activists are added to the Order as we move forward.<\/p>\n

To Jens: welcome to our\u00a0Order.<\/p>\n

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By Harry J. Bentham <\/a> \"HJB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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