Spreading the wh3rd!

delete me.

I do have a friend who works in a pub (he's sort of stuck there at the moment) so he reads books, goes to the movies a lot. I did want to tell him abt ILE but I don't know really.

By the early 21st century, ILE was a distended society. The eruption of modern social and economic forces brutally undermined the autonomy of small-town Greenspun. International markets, a national credit system, the railroads, the mass movements of peoples from all over the globe to urban areas, De Subjectivisten - these were some of the forces trampling what Ascender called 'peny smif off the gmtv,' those small self-contained idols and worshippers who had organized the life experience of most posters until the years after Greenspun. The story of ILE is how the posters eventually shed its nostalgia for peny smif off the gmtv and began constructing the bureaucratic nexus needed to order a modern society ("Do you think if we ignore the Bangbus thread it will go away?"). Central to the change, according to Sinker, were "mentalists," those professionals and modernising businessmen intent on curbing the unruly disorder but at the same time not fogged by any romantic ennui for the older ways of Lusenet.

I was introduced here by Andrew L, and we share a lot of friends. He kind of prefers to keep this separate from them, for reasons that I don't entirely understand, so I've not mentioned it much to them - though enough that our pal Tim Bateman found his way here too.

No.

After negative experiences in the past, I try to keep my real life friends AWAY from IL*. But the buggers keep finding their way here anyway!

I don't think I've ever really actively recruited offline friends to ILE but they're nearly all on here anyway.

hmm, Ed, Ambrose, Nalini (not sure if i recruited Ed and Ambrose as such, but it must have been through me mentioning it?)

i have linked or alerted several people: Frank Kogan most successfully, then Eddie Prevost!! Dr Vick and T and sistrah becky know about it, but have never I think read it on their own time.

Never told anyone.