An early work-in-progress dedicated to helping,
circuitously, precipitate the Great Mobilisation
Dare to be wise!
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author Cimino
work-in-progress published 20250601
ox and lamb kept time,
pā-rum pum-pum pum …
I played my best …
Me and my drum.
Katherine Kennicott Davis
Readpainting actually titled Steady the Drums and Fifes, but repurposed here in the unrivalled cause of the Great Mobilisationy the Drums and Fifes: No Planet Earthly reason Great Mobilisation marches couldn’t be corps-of-drums led, with the beat relayed to a million or more, and to the world, via a corps-of-drums app. artist Lady Elizabeth Butler
Wouldn’t in-step marching—Cimino found himself wondering—better, in fact magnificently , demonstrate the demand for, or participation in, the Great Mobilisation? Musing over his near-future-novel concept while focussed on fashioning a half-plausible Day of Hope-protest chant, unbidden, he began to hear the…
H’thhrrrætor H’thhrrrat, lest the æ—the a as in apple, mislead!
H’thhrrræt!
H’thhrrræt, h’thhrrræt, h’thhrrræt!
…of the marching snare-drum, and suddenly appreciated its exact correlation with…
Left!
Left!
Left, right, left!
Given the two-millennium antiquity of military marching, Cimino marvelled that marching, actual in-step marching, for the Great Mobilisation might prove to be a decisive factor in enabling the beyond-urgent sea change needed. At $1000 or more, actual marching snare-drums might be a stretch, but assuming smart phones remain ubiquitous—Alexander Bell’s telephone, with its original crank, rotary-dial and push-button successors, was essentially unrivalled for 103 years—Cimino figured that a corps-of-drums app could readily keep a million marchers magnificently in step. Not that actual marching snare-drums should be discouraged, in the marches urging mobilisation—drum corps could become iconic of the Great Mobilisation marches, and of the Great Mobilisation itself…
Millions marching for the Great Mobilisation however, Cimino is sharply reminded, is going to demand an historically unprecedented groundswell painstakingly built, preceded by meticulous planning. The chapter’s premise presupposes there is something imminently inflammable for said fuse to ignite. Young or curious older New Zealanders—the target audience—need to be excited by a vision of what life leadingleading the mobilisation, simply by living in a mobilised country or by actively participating the Great Mobilisation could be like. Travel—that privilege that is possibly most justifiably deserved by the young—Cimino judges, deserves to be fiercely focussed on, not least of all for the fierce push-back it would provoke from the annual 1.4-billion-international-tourist-arrivals global travel industry. The so-where-the-bloody-hell-are-you obvious sector—Australians visiting Aotearoa carbon-free for all the right reasons—has enormous potential demonstrate about every key attribute required for the Great Mobilisation to indeed be great. The 1.4-million-Australian-visitors-per-year sector is more than five times larger than that which is Chinese. Were the combined 37 000-kilometre railway networks of both continentsAustralia and the mostly submerged Zealandia largely electrified, and connected by a pair of small-modular-reactor-powered small-waterplane-area-monohull, passenger-only trans-Tasman ferries, the bulk of reasonable Australasian travel
needscertainly, the trans-Tasman needs of, for example, family members, to visit could be met, fossil-fuel free…
To be continued…
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