elevating craigslist

Okay, I'll be honest: this was a late-night, split-two-six-packs conversation (and the others can drink a lot more than I can). But I think we've got something here. My sister, her travelling companion and I were talking about all the improvements we'd make if we could hijack craigslist for a day, just for fun, and take its already-useful categories of communication and connection to the next level. Incite people to think about where our shared potential could take us if we really got outside of our shared boxes.

I know some like to laugh at craigslist. And sure, plenty of the site's readers use it less-than-intelligently. To further their own shallow wishes, petty rants, and stuck-in-the-material perspectives. But surely there are many of us out here who also see its potential for collective progress. It's already a beautiful expression of the anarchist/personalist paradigm: let's ask each other directly for the things or the help that we need. Let's get free of our structures, of hierarchy, of money. And we could get even more free together, if we took the conversation further into Reality in all its aspects. Explore mystery. Practice radical honesty. Disarm with humor. Share wisdom, intuition, dreams, and other forms of travel.

So here are just a few of our ideas. Some in fun and some sincere. Wanna add any more to the list?

women seeking unavailable men (or women)
low-confidence men seeking critical women
strictly codependent (for those ready to be honest about it)
life swap (my unfulfilling 9-to-5 for your starving artist struggle...)
gratefully-missed connections ('you have no idea how lucky we are that we didn't meet!')
alternate realities (a discussion forum, a travel share?)
dreamshare (a forum, or a search for partners in lucidity?)
can you help a fellow human out? (not with money, but insights, connections, or introductions)
free ideas (outgrown perspectives, unneeded anxieties, crackpot theories)
listening volunteers (I have time to hear you out unconditionally; let's meet up!)
blessings and affirmations (a counterpart to 'rants and raves')
misplaced objects (a forum for locating all those odd items you lost when you moved out of your last apartment)
will barter for love (enter your suggestion here)