Has anyone paid attention to the expanding list of free tools, instructional material and services meant for collaborative enterprises, especially for mass communication media and alternative energy?I don't know what anyone is focused on, but I'm looking at the gaps and holes in our communities, with a personal and rather passionate interest in mass media and energy.Because a lot of our community's attention is placed in consuming shiny, tightly, packaged, melodramatic, advertising driven content.Right now I'm noticing how I write in a style akin to poetry, prose and bullet point addresses. Partly because text in this graphic icon user interfaced, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) social infrastructure is for many as the foreign a language as Urdu and some abstract forms of higher mathematic philosophies.Now, with so many inundated markets and collapsing industries, in my opinion, is a very good time to look for spots to place interests, thought, ideas, time, energy and resources.I tend to be argumentative concerning the present state of the land of opportunity, because in the past all of the resources were controlled by a hand full of individuals and access to those resources was subject to various permissions and limitations. But now, the major factor seems to be accessing the minds and information required to build a dream.It has been written, "For without a dream, the people perish".Dreams and visions are gifts from God, a part of the internal re-creative cycle. Television is to the mind, what Opium is to the metabolic processes, they block receptors and transmitters. They cloud the living soul's ability to process certain "non linear" concepts.But it seems like God stopped talking to us long ago and quite possibly has gone to find a quiet place to die.We have people here arguing for the right of women to be exploited for ill gains.We have people here that without ever knowing spend a greater portion of their income on vanities than food.We have people here that demand that others provide for us the best of what they have in exchange for the 'good feeling' of making amends for their ancestor's atrocities.We have people here who are placing all of the blame and all of the responsibilities of attending all of the peoples on all of the planets woes. And expecting a result Now! the moment that they realize that there is a problem.We have people here arguing a call to war for rather vague reasons and no plan.We have people here sharing good ideas and good thoughts, elders and educators pleading with their people to stop projecting words and thoughts that have ill effects on the young and the weak and those words go ignored.We sit in our SUVs, eating our prepackaged, predigested toxic waste, with the organic and nutritious stickers, pitching the radioactive wrappers out the window as we drive by complaining about the air quality, the blithe, the price, the other motorists, the music, the lines, the roads, the job, the customers, the co-workers, the boss, the bed partners or lack of, the game, the news, the clothes, the hair, the children, the way people act, the way we're being treatedWe are not the first generation to adopt the madness of our nations' founders.We are the first generation to actually have access to over ninety percent of all the documented information in all of human history.The areas that I do see quickly fading away are high paying semi-skilled production and middle management / clerical. The cubical replaced the assembly line in Detroit, about twenty years ago, but established Detroiters have yet to get the news. And in cities that suffer abandonment from their core industries everywhere, the creative communities are slipping in. Their slipping in to areas that were once tree lined neighborhoods filled with poorer and working middle class multi-generational families, that slowly became war zones and are now either barren desert battlefields or new homestead plots for people with skills and people willing to invest "sweat equity" into building the same kinds of communities, their grandparents took flight flight from.When I worked as a cook for a caterer, we occasionally served conferences for General Motors' Tier 1 parts suppliers' diversity / minority program, which was comprised at the of about 1/3 African American women, 1/3 Indian / Asian men and the rest was a good mix of peoples of the world. During one function, the event moderator stated that close to seventy percent of African American Multi-Millionaires were Tier 1 parts suppliers to the auto industry. Now when you factor in the numbers of athletes and entertainers with earnings in the multiple millions, that was a lot of Black folks with a lot of money. But collectively they failed to do what the people of India have done. And that is develop an auto manufacture. Because we love little more than to stand over someone else's shoulder and tell them how to do their job. Which means they can't do their job exceptionally well. If you are the owner of a business, then you should have been building that businessAnd when you consider the fact that the number one industry in the whole world is the cosmetics business and the number one consumers targeted for their disposable income are girls and women ages 13 - 27 [that's all nationalities combined] followed by gay men [that's all nationalities combined] and the groups with the least discressionary income were octagenarians. The people physically responsible for building our present and collapsing infrastructure. Everything can be pointed toSeeing that American cultures and subcultures have lost the major power enjoyed over the past 40 years, that being collective consumerism. There may be a message painted on that closed window. Get Creative! The FUBU mind state has also kind of fallen off it's pedestal, seeing that others can make things for us a lot cheaper, more varied and universally desirable than we can. Perhaps it's time to look into meeting the desires and needs of larger less monolithic communities, with the intent of distributing the wealth gained from those enterprises through a more local and more diverse society.I'm not trying to say that racism, sexism, class-ism or any other 'ism' does not continue to exist, I am saying that they can now be used as tools as opposed to weapon. If we only stop fighting for what others have built using the talents, skills, labor, needs and wants of the masses and redirect the displaced tools possessed by those people.
I am the descendant of a Black man that came to America from the British Isles to live the "Dream" as it was stated in his time and escape whatever tyranny he experience, individually and as a member of a collective.
He owned slaves, but had never been a slave himself.
When the chance came to take advantage of the corruption that is the cement of this federation of independent and interdependent states, he acquired 40 acres and a mule for each of his twelve legitimate children and four illegitimate children. He understood human nature to the point that he also went to the trouble of acquiring land patents for the property and creating a document that plainly states that, not one square inch of that land could be leased or sold without total written agreement from every living elder in the family, That property spans two towns in two counties of North Carolina.
My father has gone into semi-retirement there. It is my hope and goal to like him, build onto, expanding the house he had built on that land.
On the maternal side of my family, the descendants of Creole slaves, some still in the Bayous of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, but mostly scattered to the great industrial cities of the U.S. and the world now. These are hard working independent, simple people that believe that the rights of people are and should be protected by people in public and consumer service that always strive to provide the best for the masses.
When I speak of the responsibilities of citizenship, my father's people snap back to their teachings, but my mother's people at best ignore me and at worst become defensive and combative.
I don't have to agree with the methods of exploitation and abuse in order to understand the purpose for "cheap labor" (slavery). But it is imperative that I do understand it in order to effectively do something about it.
I realize that repeating the story of our [human's] past is what gives people a common point of realization. But I should not be required to relive that process in it's entirety to be accepted as a member of the people that I come from.
The past is a foundation composed of pain, blood and sacrifice. It is only when the full structure of the intended design is completed and realized that human effort is recognized for the beauty that we are capable of creating.
We do not need to constantly start new foundations, that's call urban sprawl and is a waste of resources and time. We do not need to be so dependent on agencies of institutions and businesses to produce greatness,
I tend to become angry with people who are determined to demand that outside parties dedicate their life's energies to the greater welfare of individuals who wish to take no part in improving the systems that provide for the needs and desires of their individual lives. The opportunity is for individuals to build something for their people in this land, which now spans out into the cosmos. Proper ownership requires investment of the mind and spirit, participation in the construction and consumption of it's products is not enough. If you exploit people's talents and skills for the benefit of the masses, then your actions are just. If you chose to exploit people for your own personal gain, there can be no justice.
I realize that knowing how we got here is a lot less important than knowing what we intend to do now that we are here.
If today, which is the greatest mark in the separation between our past, our present and the future of all people, we elect to not participate or fail to participate in the design [thinking process] of the places we inhabit then we demand to accept what is given to us.
If we fail to climb the tree of life in order to taste the fruits at the top, then we must accept what is thrown down or falls off. According to all of the holy text I've studied, what falls off is only good for the animals we consume and what is low on the tree is forbidden. We must climb, even if it means we must fight for access to a limb. And no one is obligated to voluntarily forfeit their perch only offer someone else a hand up.
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He owned slaves, but had never been a slave himself.
When the chance came to take advantage of the corruption that is the cement of this federation of independent and interdependent states, he acquired 40 acres and a mule for each of his twelve legitimate children and four illegitimate children. He understood human nature to the point that he also went to the trouble of acquiring land patents for the property and creating a document that plainly states that, not one square inch of that land could be leased or sold without total written agreement from every living elder in the family, That property spans two towns in two counties of North Carolina.
My father has gone into semi-retirement there. It is my hope and goal to like him, build onto, expanding the house he had built on that land.
On the maternal side of my family, the descendants of Creole slaves, some still in the Bayous of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, but mostly scattered to the great industrial cities of the U.S. and the world now. These are hard working independent, simple people that believe that the rights of people are and should be protected by people in public and consumer service that always strive to provide the best for the masses.
When I speak of the responsibilities of citizenship, my father's people snap back to their teachings, but my mother's people at best ignore me and at worst become defensive and combative.
I don't have to agree with the methods of exploitation and abuse in order to understand the purpose for "cheap labor" (slavery). But it is imperative that I do understand it in order to effectively do something about it.
I realize that repeating the story of our [human's] past is what gives people a common point of realization. But I should not be required to relive that process in it's entirety to be accepted as a member of the people that I come from.
The past is a foundation composed of pain, blood and sacrifice. It is only when the full structure of the intended design is completed and realized that human effort is recognized for the beauty that we are capable of creating.
We do not need to constantly start new foundations, that's call urban sprawl and is a waste of resources and time. We do not need to be so dependent on agencies of institutions and businesses to produce greatness,
I tend to become angry with people who are determined to demand that outside parties dedicate their life's energies to the greater welfare of individuals who wish to take no part in improving the systems that provide for the needs and desires of their individual lives. The opportunity is for individuals to build something for their people in this land, which now spans out into the cosmos. Proper ownership requires investment of the mind and spirit, participation in the construction and consumption of it's products is not enough. If you exploit people's talents and skills for the benefit of the masses, then your actions are just. If you chose to exploit people for your own personal gain, there can be no justice.
I realize that knowing how we got here is a lot less important than knowing what we intend to do now that we are here.
If today, which is the greatest mark in the separation between our past, our present and the future of all people, we elect to not participate or fail to participate in the design [thinking process] of the places we inhabit then we demand to accept what is given to us.
If we fail to climb the tree of life in order to taste the fruits at the top, then we must accept what is thrown down or falls off. According to all of the holy text I've studied, what falls off is only good for the animals we consume and what is low on the tree is forbidden. We must climb, even if it means we must fight for access to a limb. And no one is obligated to voluntarily forfeit their perch only offer someone else a hand up.
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