Namaste!
Can you trust the Corporate media kiddies?
CNN, FOX, ABC, BBC, etc etc...anagram's for Africa, but starved for the larger truth!!
Well here's a clip, from the doco "The Corporation", that illuminates that in the USA at least, telling the truth is NOT a requirement when reporting 'The News'.
Martin Luther King spoke convincingly at Riverside church in New York in 1967, about the perils of Corporations controlling our future, & for this impudence more than anything else, i believe he was dead less than a year later...
What has changed since then? We have more, more, MORE of the same, with humanity & the planet much worse off for it.
The lunacy of this whole debacle is beautifully illustrated by the wonderful wordsmith, Mark Morford, in this classic example of how the Corporate Wars have driven us into terrible deadend cul-de-sacs of hubris driven tragedy...
Yes, indeed the 'War Against (some) Drugs' is very largely driven by hysterical editorial in most corporate media, when there is more than ample, in fact huge amounts, of very convincing evidence that this 'War' is really an angle on the 'War Against Consciousness'.
The punishment model is a failure, & NEEDS to be replaced by the harm reduction model. I could go on a huge tangent about the pro's & con's of various versions of drugs, but will not - try here & here for a reminder to learn more about the reality, rather than the propaganda.
The War Against Consciousness...i say it again, as this very medium, "The Internet", is experiencing a less than convert war for control of peoples online access & the information that they are exposed to...
...& what is the Internet??
One giant PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE - that's for sure!!
MANIFEST MY MIND!! AND YOURS!! AND YOURS!! AND YOURS!!...!!...!!!...!!...
According to Steve Anderson's story, only 20 websites capture a staggering 39% of all time spent online by USA users!!.
That is incredible!!
The internet has only existed for approximately 15 years as a popular medium, & already almost 40% of people's time online is spent viewing the architecture & content controlled by just a few corporates - largely, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, & Fox (Myspace).
But the little guy's - us - are fighting back. Steve's article links to "Freespeech TV Community", a website in the spirit of Wikipedia & Firefox - opensource, user generated content.
Power to the people!!
Which of course brings me to question my own use of Blogger.com, owned courtesy of Google since c.2003.
Am i being a complete hypocrite here??!!??
Well, part of the dilemma is of course, audience exposure...& the corporates certainly draw an audience as already noted...not that that has concerned moiself as yet, cause while i'm still finding my feet on this whole 'online publishing' thing, i care not a rooty-toot-toot of a hoot if i get any readers or not.
I believe i have had exactly ONE comment in the 6 months that this blog has been running...but i haven't checked for ages, so you never know!!
What's more, i am NOT saying that Corporates are the equivalent of banal evilness, & it is OBVIOUS that they do cover, & support many, many worthy voices & activities.
However, it never pays to have all your eggs in just one - or a few - baskets, & being freed somewhat from the ever ubiquitous advertising is a draw for many in the least!!
ANYHOW, i have decided to investigate beginning a second "philerosophi" blog on an open source site, perhaps community.freespeech.org, where i will focus more on what this blog was originally supposed to be about - the philerosophi love spiral - & maintain THIS blog as a window to a greater audience...
...sort of like a meta-link from one community to another...
Partly inspired by Les Visible's great 'smokingmirrors.blogspot.com'.
I
am
the
ocean.
All
the
worlds
are
like
waves.
This
is
the
truth.
Nothing
to
hold
on
to,
nothing
to
let
go
of,
nothing
to
dissolve.
(6:2)
Ashtavakra Gita
peace!
pSi :-)
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