To the Point

What is the point of a revolution?

What is the point of climatology?

What is the point of needlepoint?

What is the point of any committee?

You are welcome to answer any or all of the above questions, if you are capable of doing so appropriately.

Perhaps you are here to support the work of the committee.

Perhaps you are here to become better informed about that work.

What do you know about the activities of the Council of Enlightenment?

What do you know about the Anglo-Pama–Nyungan-Algonquinian-Twaklinian Hexagonal Tables?

What do you know about suitable employment?

What do you know about pointless occupations, including very well paid ones?

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee, acting on behalf of the Council of Enlightenment, has long been keeping to the point.

The members know very well indeed when to request assistance.  They also know when any offered assistance is likely to cause more harm than good.

How do you assess needs, including your own?

If you wish to assist the committee, or even become a non-ethereal member, how are you already contributing to the second Age of Enlightenment?

What do you know about contributions to the first Age of Enlightenment?

What have been your most notable accomplishments in the art, science and craft of climatological needlepoint?

Nature is the frame for embroidering the future.  Science is the canvas.  History is the thread.  Politics provides all the possible designs.  Your actions are the needle.  Your mind must choose the most suitable design.

Will you make your decision mainly on the basis of considerable knowledge or through the vagaries of your emotions?

The Council of Enlightenment meets on a daily basis in the Hall of the Virtues within its Twaklinilkawt headquarters.  

Council members are required to make billions of decisions every day, individually and collectively.

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee meets wherever and whenever necessary.

Committee members are individually required to make millions of decisions every day.  They are required to make collective decisions officially only when invited to do so by the Council of Enlightenment.

How do you tell the difference between an official decision and an unofficial decision?

When, if ever, have you commissioned a fresco cycle, whether as an individual or as a member of a group?

When, if ever, have you commissioned a work of artistic embroidery?

When, if ever, have you commissioned a report on the sustainability of your preferred way of life?

What do you know about the conservation and restoration of frescoes?

What do you know about the conservation and restoration of textiles?

What do you know about the conservation and restoration of cultural property more generally?

What do you know about the conservation and restoration of ecosystems and habitats?

How do you distinguish between a cultural property and a property of nature?

What do you know about the conservation and restoration of good governance?

What do you know about allegory and satire as effective tools for the peaceful development and maintenance of adequately accountable governments? 

What do you know about public interest journalism as such a tool?

Perhaps you regard politics as much the same as a game of chess rather than as an expression of virtue.

Perhaps you would rather read medieval poetry about gaming rather than prose about improving politics. 

Perhaps you would rather read about the Renaissance development of rules in relation to gaming rather than reasonable expectations in relation to public policy.

What is your acquaintance with Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara in Italy?

Perhaps you are mostly interested in diverting yourself away from boredom rather than solving the world's most urgent problems.

You may have noticed that the Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee has a highly disciplined, interdisciplinary, scholarly and learned approach to its activities, including its activism.

What is your acquaintance with Marfisa d'Este and her patronage of Torquato Tasso?

What do you know about various museums in various parts of the world?

Palazzo Schifanoia is a significant heritage site, as to be expected.

What is your acquaintance with Ferrara and its location?

How do you attempt to illuminate the past, the present and the future?

What is your preferred approach to exploring the truth virtually?

How do you prefer to interpret various locations?

How do you prefer to interpret various intentions? 

How do you prefer to interpret various consequences?

How do you prefer to assess performance qualities?