Monday, April 21, 2003

I came up with the term Radical Centrist on July 4, 2002, and started talking about it in January, 2003. However, I only now started looking for it on the web. Lo and behold, there is already a burgeoning Radical Middle community, which clearly I need to become a part of:

For better or worse, there is as yet no definitive "radical middle" (aka "planetary humanist," "third wave," etc.) political manifesto.

It sounds like I may have an opening. I find myself selfishly hoping they don't know what they're doing, so my ideas can have a chance. However, I find myself having to eat my own dog food of humility, as clearly a lot of what I thought was original has already been done, and in some cases at least done better.
Just started realizing that all my favorite terms are already in use.

Bootstrap is pretty far out there, but the rest use those terms more or less the way I do.