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  Mona N.

  1 month ago

  Funny how we're both saying the same things in different ways and topics. I just said on FriendFeed today: "But it's 2009 - we are more connected than ever. There should be something bigger we can all do. It's too bad the ones with the loudest voices and insane reaches don't place social relevance on their digital activities. Sad."
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  gregorylent

  2 months ago

  not enough, and really just tokenism ... it is not thinking that needs to be changed, it is character ...
  
  collective consciousness, the substance of which all these situations are composed, is at base an aggregation of intentions and motivations, which have little to do with ideas and much to do with the quality of consciousness of millions of people ... not the content of the awareness, but the quality of the stuff that awareness is composed of ...
  
  ok, too new age for you, but let me point out that psychics have been talking about the changes we are seeing at this time since at least the 1980's. you can't link to this stuff because it is pre-internet, but you can find back-issues of "sedona journal of emergence" just for starters ... futurists picked up on this in the 1990's, leading-edge economists in the early 2000's, and the last to get it have been the established wall street and washington d.c. power players ... still to get it, because they are simply not aware enough, is the mass public ...
  
  paradigm shifts are fairly well understood in esoteric literature .. they are generational, you basically get new souls incarnated who are more highly developed than the previous generation, and reality shifts ...
  
  you are senstive and aware, most people are simply not ....
  
  unless you can change character, you can do nothing about those people ... assigned reading or moyers interviews wont even be perceived ...
  
  note that for two fucking weeks some singer named susan boyles has led the twitter trends search list ... that shows you that social media is merely a spreader of banality and the cure for nothing ..
  
  time, meditation, and a lot of patience while quietly doing what you see to do, living as if the shift has already happened (which it has on the subtle planes)
  
  ranting helps nothing ... neither does reading valleywag
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  jon

  9 months ago

  Well said, Anthony. I've been similarly frustrated on progressive blogs where the pages and pages of analysis and anger aren't matched with a similar focus on action. Obviously I have a preference for the campaign I'm part of, No blank check for Wall Street, but if there were something else they wanted to get behind instead, that'd be great. OpenLeft is a great example; they had a couple of posts about the demonstrations on Wall Street, and David Sirota's had a link or two to the Campaign for American Progress petition for the No BAILOUTS bill, but the vast majority of the front-page posts on the bailout aren't action-oriented. Disappointing.
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  mattb4rd

  9 months ago

  Very well thought out and very well written. An enjoyable read.
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  Scheherazade

  9 months ago

  Thanks, Anthony. Well said.
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