Being there is being very helpful. Any loss of goodness is a major loss.
Milk and ice and any other similar always was a 'loose' collection of undetermined and vaguely educational - whatever that means - aims but basically giving mutual support while people wanted or might want it. And platforms for hobby horses, see crazyidea.org if really bored ever.
From my new grandfatherly vantage the horizon has yet again receded as the world expands, and I now am sure will keep doing so. Having friendly islands to harbour near was always a security for the peoples exploring the early Med. And I believe that friends made while young and learning fast can be trusted and predicted or at very least known better than the later ones whose shutters are up, better too than litter mates. These are just three selfish reasons for each of us staying around.
A deeper one for me if you are still reading is the quick mental links between six ex teenage now 60 friends I met last summer in the African bush (one now owns a bank, one troubleshoots a chunk of global oil, one was university student of her year in 2004, one PAs a top prep school in North London, one runs a large headhunting agency, and moi, I just put ideas together ;))
But by far my best reason for milk's survival and perhaps growth is how much the community has shaped my thinking about issues like the big clash between capital Marx worshipped and needed but hated to destruction, and the communism that he generated and died before seeing the tiny bit of it that flowered, perverted and poisoned. I have believed for some decades that the milk ethos is the best way to meld cathedral strength with bazaar ingenuity and ethos. Perhaps in the way that cells acquired nuclei for central control, DNA for procreative messaging, mitochondria etc to direct bits of progress, and selection by evolution and by the Gaias who themselves respond to stellar and galactic evolutions to decide surviving communities if any. 'Twas ever thus from pre-quark to post-post-modern drift, from our needing God to where we leap aeons beyond our current local-in-space-and-time God Delusion hassles.
Other issues milk communities illustrate for me are the left-right
education debate like how to move schools from teaching to educating, the moving conventional-alternative medicine borderline, the death-prison-freedom scenarios for our problem people and leaders and industries. Plus the role I will allocate science when I become Queen.
For these reasons I am very happy nay delighted to become pass phrase holder and very junior midnight server monkey to the secret chamber of delights otherwise known as the Andrew Och milk server.
May the tribe increase, as it wishes.
Bruce
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