April 01, 2007

#389en The Moving Circus

Posted at 19:12 in Podcasts | | 15 Comments

  

We feel there is a new generation all around the World, a generation of people who feel more as citizens of the World than their own Country. We felt like trying to describe this generation's values and called it "the moving circus", a name Yossi Vardi originally used while we were talking about the fact that we keep seeing each other in all kinds of different events around the World, same cool people, same values, different places.

We tried to define the values of that "moving circus" culture:
-no office
-no boss (self employed)
-no Country (world citizen)
-no race (does not matter)
-no diploma (who cares)
-no smoking (has been)
-no hierarchy (OK, not much hierarchy)
-no political party (!!!, we care more about people than parties)
-no tie, no suit: casual all the time
-no monopoly, no center, everything decentralized
-no religion (not has important as it was before)
-no mariage (not needed to live together)
-in sync: no email, no phone, just IM, twitter, social software...
-no off-line: everything online, Gmail Google apps rather than MS Office
-no distance: it does not matter where you are
-no mass media: they are here but do not matter as much as before
-no fear of embarrassment or of failure: the "always beta" culture
-icons: Hans Rosling, Sergey Brin, Lary Page
-book: The World if Flat from Thomas Friedman
-entrepreneurial or self employed
-ideas over systems
-sharing ideas instead of keeping them secret (authority and power change from people protecting information to people sharing it)
-ethics: environment, ...
-global citizen

Does it make sense ? Would love your feedback. Thanks !

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Love the Moving Circus concept. Of course, some of those values are more imperative than others. :)

Brad Hill, April 01, 2007 at 20:37

really like the concept but i think i will remain off-line for a long time. on-line as well but hé, real life rocks !!

bastien, April 01, 2007 at 21:31

You're onto something with the moving circus. It makes a lot of sense. However, I respectfully disagree with Thomas about the french language. While english may rule in the business world, other languages will not disappear in our homes nor in our closest social networks. I live in california and speak only french with my friends here and with certain colleagues at the office. It's part of the connection you're talking about; however, it goes beyond the superficial. We can't completely lose magnetic north, or we'll be floundering without any real sense of direction.

Will religion ever really disappear? What should disappear is the intolerance that surrounds it and the fanaticism.

It's interesting what Thomas says about the gap between the urban and the rural areas becoming more important. I think exactly the opposite will happen given the advances we're making in transportation and communications. The TGV in France is a perfect example of this. People can choose to live well beyond Paris and still participate in its economic opportunities. This is inevitable, unless major changes happen in residential development in that city...I see towers, everywhere :-).

marsha, April 03, 2007 at 06:45

Thanks for your comments, I am working on it. My French blog has already turned collaborative.

Loic, April 03, 2007 at 07:47

-no diploma (who cares)

who care ? :)
Too many people unfortunately, start by the ones who refuse to give me a visa...

aruban, April 03, 2007 at 11:22

What a laugh! Is this lifted from The Onion or a 1994 copy of Wired?

Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing new about a tiresome, vapid, self-regarding, self-defining narcissistic 'elite' that identifies itself by what it *doesn't* do...what it *doesn't* believe in...what it *doesn't* participate in, because it is better, cooler, more intellectual, more caring, etc...old as the hills and a dime a dozen.

Eventually real life catches up with you and you find you're not nearly as effing special as you think you are...and this lot definitely isn't!

Oh wait! I get it now...my apologies...posted 1st April! All a joke, right?

Sunscreen, April 04, 2007 at 14:59

Here here Suncreen... painful. Pity, most of the content on this site is normally of a high standard.

Sebastian Tuft, April 04, 2007 at 21:48

I live:
6 months in Paris
4 months in Buenos Aires
1 months in NY
1 month in Urugay (punta del este)
and I still do not understand how the miles airline system works...

I have : 2 companies, 5 busines angels(thanks to them!), 5 French employees, 5 Argentinian employees;
2 Indian programers; 3 phone numbers; 10 group of friends, Soon 2 nationalities Arg. + French (thanks to my amazing Argentinan future wife!), 3 languages: French, Spanish and English

I JOIN THE MOVING CIRCUS!
The most important is to link Love, Work and People.

- ArtMad

Arthur , April 05, 2007 at 01:50

"We feel there is a new generation all around the World, a generation of people who feel more as citizens of the World than their own Country."

A generation? More like a microscopic subset of the world's wealthy elite.

You definitely describe a group of people (some great people), but to describe it as a generation takes a special kind of ignorance.

I encourage you to read up on the history of "world citizenship". You will find you're not nearly as original as you believe.

Chris Albon, April 06, 2007 at 05:42

Bonsoir loic,

excitant cette aventure moving circus :-)
je veux en etre , comment participer ?
twitter.com/cattias

cyril attias, April 06, 2007 at 23:48

Vietnam, a country made famous by war, has a unique and rich civilisation, spectacular scenery and friendly people. From the Red River Delta in the north to the Mekong River in the south, the scenes throughout Vietnam are timeless, with green rice paddies tended by labourers in conical hats.

Vietnam travel agency, April 10, 2007 at 08:19

Loic: totally agree with some attributes of the moving circus. However I must admit that we are talking about a tiny sliver of people that are financially secure/or confident that they will always be so. I hate to bring it back to this but many people can share some of these attributes but for most it will be wishful thinking. They'd love to live like this but they simply can't. So there is a whole lot of truth in the moving circus but most people still worry about this month's rent and whether they'll ever be able to buy an apt. I feel very privileged to live the life I live but I am aware that I am one of the happy few. And that is why the happy few ALL know each other. Let's work so that more and more people can share these attributes in the future.

alain, April 10, 2007 at 13:25

who care ? ;)
Too many people unfortunately, start by the ones who refuse to give me a visa.

david, July 18, 2007 at 04:42

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