Comments on: Optimism is Hard Work: An Ex-Masser Speaks Out

By: Streetsblog San Francisco » A Lost Decade for San Francisco’s Critical Mass?

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:00 +0000

[...] list of “do’s and don’t’s”, and a rumination from a long-time former Masser on the hard work it takes to keep a space like Critical Mass open and inviting and pleasurable, as well as a look at [...]

By: dan

dan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:16:32 +0000

just a month ago i started talking to a number of people about starting a new additional ride – modeled after sjbikeparty. i’d rather just let CM continue and start a new ride at a different time. surely this town is big enough for two rides? the sjbikeparty people have a lot of good info about how to keep the ride a fun party and not an aggro political statement. email me if you want to coordinate.

By: Joel Pomerantz

Joel Pomerantz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:29:09 +0000

The fact that there’s no consensus about what the ride is for makes it so there will never be a Mass that runs happily ever after–just like the world at large. Instead, if we succeed at some of the changes being asked for by A.S. above, it’ll run better by the standards of one group (enjoyers of harmony) and not another (enjoyers of bravado, self-aggrandizement, righteousness), for a bit, and then shift and need effort again. Like life, it’s a permanent and ongoing effort that we have to relish as a process, not a goal.