I don't know if anyone will be looking to read this. It's the ramblings from one profile among hundreds of thousands. I don't even have my real name up, though most wouldn't recognize it from my time contributing in facebook anyway. Regardless, I have been here since the very ...
I don't know if anyone will be looking to read this. It's the ramblings from one profile among hundreds of thousands. I don't even have my real name up, though most wouldn't recognize it from my time contributing in facebook anyway. Regardless, I have been here since the very beginning. I was one of the original people to sign up, and I helped build up the from the start on facebook, at least in my own limited capacity. I spent weeks, nay months pouring every spare minute I had into this shared dream. I met brilliant people with inspiring ideas. I also met ambitious people with a witty tongue but lesser ideals. I am incredibly sad to return after a full years absence to see that nothing has changed fundamentally. More and more people that I've read and respected have vanished, save for a few hold outs. The prominent faces are those that I saw from the very beginning, able to push for their ideas very well, but lacking a profundity of thought necessary to understand what they profess. Most new faces share the role of the idealist, lacking the time or will to research and comprehend what Asgardia is saying. It seems that the intellectual exodus seen in the early times of this project is almost complete.
However, when I look at Asgardia, that exodus is not what effects me. I expected it. I saw it happening over months. A year ago, I had given up all hope for Asgardia, but now....
I fear it.
I look at Asgardia and from the outside, it looks to be suceeding. It's slowly gaining size and recognition, all the while perverting everything it pretends to be. I see not an idealistic nation, but a kingdom, toying with the idea of creating a royal line. I see a constitution that was forced on a people who did not want it through a flawed and conniving voting method. I see a forum devoid of activity, and an internet that seems to ignore it, yet we are supposedly fast on the path to UN recognition?
This post is muddled, unorganized, yet it can't even hope to convey the mix of emotions I had looking back today. Anger, fear, contempt, sadness.
I see no unity behind Asgardia. It's a collection of people working towards ideals, but they do not share them. There have been no grand discussions, no brilliant compromises. Certainly there has been a wealth of thought, some of it indeed brilliant, but Asgardia has never had an identity. But this has not mattered. Asgardia has been given an identity through the official rulings. Through it's motto, and it's art, and it's declaration of unity, and through it's constitution. These were decided at the top and given to the people, ignoring the best attempts of thinkers to influence them.
Seeing all of this, I can only come to a few conclusions.
1. Asgardia was created from the outset either maliciously or selfishly.
2. Asgardia's leadership was entirely unprepared for the reality of the project and has failed spectacularly to create something of substance, relying instead on smoke and mirrors.
3. My own understanding is flawed in some way.
Honestly, I hope it is the last, for then there would be some hope in Asgardia's future. Everything I know though suggests that isn't the case. There are deep inconsistencies to be found in the history of Asgardia.
A year ago, I looked into this forum discouraged and saddened. I return now and can only solidify that view. In the past I had hoped it could pull through. Now I am certain it is flawed at it's core.
