NaNoWriMo etc, New Zealand and Philosophy, Net Censorship and Sex Party

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I'm pretty sure I'll finish NaNoWriMo. I'm up to 41,000 words with three days to go. The reality is that even when I complete that will only be 1/3 to 1/4 of the number of words I want to write for this product. On a related topic, my review of Middle Earth Role Playing has been published on RPG.net, again with good responses. Have started the articles for the second edition of RPG Review with a Middle Earth/Rolemaster theme; Steven S. Long has agreed to an interview which is appropriate as his co-authorship of the Lord of the Rings roleplaying game.

Next week I'm off to New Zealand for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference where I'll be talking about the use of Hannah Arendt and Habermas with respect to war, lying in politics, legitimation crises and independent organisation - all in the setting of "the Internet Age". After Auckland I think I'll take the train down to Palmerston North, hang of with family entities for a few days and then make my way down to Wellington where there's a few people I can catch up with.

Getup have started a campaign against the Federal government's idiotic plan to cripple Australian Internet access and make e-commerce utterly insecure. Sign up!. Just in time, the Australian Sex Party (no, not that sort of party) has been formed with a lot of media coverage and with just the sort of policies relating to sensual activities that make sense. It is quite possible that with the right level of organisation that this could be one of most important political events in recent history; the possibility of rational human emancipation will not be possible unless people think rationally about sex and sexual politics.

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I'm watching the development of the Aust Sex Party with interest. I suspect they'll grow to be more than just a political-party corner of The Eros Foundation, but as a single-issue party I don't see them getting very far; while I support most of their stated policies, I can't see myself turning away from my current affiliations to concentrate on this single facet of the change our country needs. So the question becomes whether they will expand beyond that initial platform, and if so, how?

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Well, I think that their scope is actually quite wide and fundamental. Of course, the great advantage of the preferential system is that one can vote for such parties without wasting the vote.