Comments on: Forming of Second Life’s Society

By: vint falken

vint falken — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:39:04 +0000

We have already a more ‘combative’ wing for a political party with the Second Life Liberation Army… *grins*

By: Quick and dirty « Pandora’s box

Quick and dirty « Pandora’s box — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:32:06 +0000

[...] gullible! Not only I took seriously all the SL elections thingie, as I proved on my comment at dandellion blog (omg, I still have doubts, are we going to have a set of political parties or is it all a [...]

By: London Spengler

London Spengler — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:00:29 +0000

About your last question, I care more about SL politics than at RL… but sadly that doesn’t mean too much.
We live in an oligarchy, so the only difference I see between a political party and a pression group is the last ones are more motivated and have a clearer goal.
You mentioned United Protest crash, too, and that gives us a very interesting idea, a big difference between SL population and RL population… Do you support, really support an RL political party? Or easier, are you a football fan? Maybe you are (and of course I am not saying that is bad… up, up, wichever!), but I think most people on SL aren’t, or they whouldn’t spend so much time here.
Combine that individualism with the impossibilty of having mass-media leadership, since personality proyection is limited, and I doubt that a party whould be able to get the support of enough SL population to make Linden Labs worry.
*Since it is summer, puts her sunglasses and goes skiing*

By: dandellion

dandellion — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:09:57 +0000

I like the idea of spending the day in second life (not that I haven’t been close to that). But yes, it is summer. I spent a lot of winter hours on second life’s beaches. But now, I think I should get some melatonine for real.

By: Eidur

Eidur — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:50:03 +0000

Without doubt SL is a forge for creativity, social realtionships, politics as well. It won’t take longer since we’ll be seeing RL politicians promoting theirselves on SL. And I have to say that an italian party named “Italia dei Valori” is already in SL.
So what are we waiting for?
Well the questions risen by Dandellion are well founded. And as usual I can only state my personal point of view, tough I have to admit that I’ve always been the existentialist type and don’t love that much politics in RL, too - even if we all need to cope with it.
To begin, is not *that* easy to find political groups in the search tab, so unless you’re not so lucky to meet someone who joined… But I agree, social interaction is too slow, and now that I have a nice “base” of friends is gettin even slower ’cause I usally tend to hang around with them lately, rather than explore and meet.
Time. Time is an issue! I was thinking about takin some day off from work to live in SL. Then I kicked myself! Hey I’d better go to sunbathe and swim, it’s summer! SL is sucking so much time, no i could never “waste” it on politics now, sorry. And this goes together with the lack of motivation. How could I even think to get into politics when I can meet such fantastic and interesting people and I barely have the time to write them a notecard (ermmm…)