T3YBC is on a present “Shake Down Cruise”, learning about many different things by doing. One big one we’re plowing through is “process support”. A subset of “process support” is “Standards and Practices”, as in, what are the appropriate ones to adopt, and is there an ongoing “process” to address them in real time and over the long term?

Any (online) group has to establish some sort of ground rules for what is acceptable from each other, and what is not. As we know, this is a very big challenge to do in the context of the freedom we expect to practice online. Like the real world, there will be people who are exemplary and “good to play with”, and there will be people who “wreck everything for the rest of us”. “Trolls” for example. Or worse.

So we need to learn about this if we’re going to create models for SLC that actually work out of the box, si?

Yes Virginia, there is such a thing as a song called “Shake Down Cruise” from the 70s by Jay Ferguson. The lyrics are perhaps “educational”, and the song possibly listenable one time in a “hey aren’t synths fun” sort of way. Plus it brings up some “Standards and Practices” issues we need to deal with. The word “sex” is used below. Is that okay? Maybe the lyrics are okay but the singing is totally unacceptable?

And what if it’s a combination of things…sort of okay because not too many uses of the F word? Ratings boards apparently count how many bad words, and a certain number of uses are okay, and same for acts of violence and sex. Since our DLE and SLC are inhabiting the real world, how are we going to handle something that has flummoxed censors and the Supreme Court and Hollywood, for some time now?

Hit it!

 

It was thirty days around the horn
The captain says it’s a thirty-five more
The moon looks mean and the crew ain’t staying
“There’s gonna be some blood” is what they’re all saying

 

It’s a shakedown cruise (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
And I was just another fool (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
There ain’t no easy way out (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
They’re gonna shake you ’til you shout, hey, hey
(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)

 

They treat you like a dog, but you’re only human
You miss your home, Lord, you miss that woman
The captain laughs, he says, “You boys want some sex?
You can squeeze the sails, you can lick the decks”

 

It was a shakedown cruise (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
I guess I just was born to lose (Shakedown, shakin’ out the blues)
They tell you life is going cheap (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
I got myself in pretty deep (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)

 

(Starlight lost in the night)
(Drift away and it feels all right) And it feels all right
(Starlight alone in the night)
(Drift away and it feels all right) And it feels all right
I guess it feels all right

 

The fever’s hot, the winds are blowin’ cold
The captain’s crazy eye puts the fear in your soul
I heard somebody cryin’, “Lord, let this end
You know I’ll never go to sea again”

 

It was a shakedown cruise (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
And now we’re sendin’ out the news (Shakedown, shakin’ out the blues)
There ain’t no victory at sea (Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
Unless it’s mutiny (Shakedown, shakin’ in my shoes)

 

Now if I don’t get off alive, it’s just as well
I’ll be waking up in heaven, ’cause I’ve been through hell
On this shakedown cruise
They call it a shakedown cruise
Aw, shake me down, boy

 

(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
(Shakedown, shakin’ out the blues)
It was a shakedown cruise
(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
It got me shakin’ in my shoes
(Shakedown, shakin’ in my shoes)
And now I’m feelin’ kinda blue
(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
Whoo!
(Shakedown, shakin’ out the blues)

 

Shakedown cruise
(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)
I said, shake me down, boys
(Shakedown, shakin’ in my shoes)
Whoo!
(Shakedown, shakedown cruise)