Morning meeting by Franz – D45

So, yesterday I was watching this TEDTalk about “The transformative powers of classical music” by Benjamin Zander, and I found it great and posted it in the group MPC at UFM. To my surprise, Franz decided to share this TEDTalk and at first I thought he didn’t prepare anything and saw my post on the group, so I was a little disappointed of him, but then, I saw my post and found out he didn’t saw it and that it was a very rare coincidence. Do great minds think alike? Maybe it was just a happy coincidence because it was a great talk. Everybody enjoyed it a lot. By the way, we changed Agora with the Morning meeting because of some sound difficulties.

At 9:30 a.m. we had a dialogue about “Apology” by Plato. We read out loud the first paragraphs and then discussed them, reaching to the conclusion (with a lot of Bert’s interventions, almost as if he dominated the dialogue) that Socrates, in his defense, is not only making the context and structuring his arguments for future refutation of the prosecutors’ arguments, but he is teaching how human mind works. It was a good dialogue for the Epicycle 1 about Classical Works. 

Franz’s Morning Meeting and Individual Work – D30

After resisting for 30 MPC days to direct a morning meeting, Franz finally directed it. His activity was about reading something he wrote called, “What I talk about when I talk about “This” and “That””. As I understood it, it was about doing what we really want and not what society expects and wants us to do, just to fulfill some “social requirements”. It relates a lot with Emerson’s essay, Self-Reliance, because both talk about speaking up for yourself and not to surrender your liberty to the society’s approval. The activity was cool, although it lacked some dynamics to do it more interesting. Plus, he didn’t make time for announcements or for making the schedule for the day, but I don’t blame him because, being honest, he hasn’t been in many morning meetings for him to know that.

The rest of the morning was for individual work. I decided to work on some documentation and to make most of the eight-week self-evaluation Bert gave us. I think it was averagely productive.

How to advance liberty workshop with Alexander McCobin – Saturday 20

SFL Workshop @ Acton MBA

 Just for you to know how much we like liberty, seven of the MPC’ers (Isa, Marce, Mabe, Alejo, Franz, Pablito, and I) went to a workshop this Saturday (Revolution holiday) to a workshop about student group organizing with Alexander McCobin. He told us many useful tips about organizing and spreading the libertarian ideas. Also, we made a brief workshop in which the MPC’ers decided to work as a team to create a club or organization to reach this goal in Guatemala. We concluded we would start a kind-of-club (We don’t know the name yet) and make the Liberty Café. Our goal is to, “Engage others to achieve their own understanding of liberty.” This we would achieve by three major means, Le Sticky Method, a webpage and a fan page, and the Liberty Café. Le Sticky Method consists of creating stickers, buttons, and pins with questions about relevant daily topics such like, The Social Healthcare would fail, want to know how and why? The objective of this is to encourage people to ask you this question and start an important conversation anywhere you are, whether a cafeteria or the street. After this conversation, you can invite them to the Liberty Café and offer them to visit our webpage, in which they may find all resources needed to be prepared for the dialogue tables. These resources would include videos, essays, books, and other important ones. Finally, the Liberty Café consists of round table dialogues about important topics. We found this project very interesting and easy to replicate in other places starting in universities, and we even got contacts from Alexander for funding this project!

Excuses are like elbows...

MPC'ers working as a group