...and it's not easy to forget about those women and that water can (with apropriate apologies to Mr Roy Orbison). But pretty soon the work is going to start fleshing out a little and taking some form. And that means that I will start the scary and somewhat tenuous process of getting in touch with many old friends and peeps from all over the place and time and see who might want to join in the blogging for democracy web 4.0 or so that is being called for and somewhat started here.
Who knows where it might lead? Not me. And I don't really care. There, I've said it.
But where ever it's going to lead the www.dialogdemocracy.org web site has to be the main focus for the most part until it is vastly upgraded and improved from where it's at and the shape it's in right now. So that's going to be the main emphasis for the next several days. Hopefully I can make some serious progress on that and do a little constructive blogging and blog related communicatin' and be in way more energized shape towards the end of next week- which will leave 2 count `em two weeks to really power on down toward the next coney island of my mind road trip. Farward and faiyaka. Minnotuh- and den gosaka.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Progressive Solidarity and Activist Convergence With All New Web 4.0 (beta)...
...yeah that's the ticket. That's what dialogD must transmorgrify towards. There is "my work" assignment in a nut shell. Yeah yeah yeah right right right. "I think of Dean Moriarty. I think of old Dean Moriarty." Google that quote. If it comes up then all might or might not be lost- to paraphrase Woodie Guthrie.
Anyway, todays lookabouting brought me to one Charles Leadbeater http://zero.newassignment.net/assignmentzero/charles_leadbeater_key_writer_thinker_consultant#
who's new book project "We think" might be worth checking out ... Soooo...
http://wethink.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
It's time for me to go back to www.dialogdemocracy.org and spruce it up and give it a little more coherence in terms of what I am really gonna try and call for whilst blogging about.
Jeff Jarvis is a guy billed as a Citizen Journalist Activist. Check him out at:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/about-me/
All these high level white folks already part of the digerati elite and living there uber upper middle class lives. Can they connect with a progressive political movement that includes people of vastly differing and diverse backgrounds and cultures? And what about the folks's that need to be mobilized who are so fundamentally left out of the opportunity structures so comfortably utilized by the college professors and writers and political organizers and other movers and shakers of the current cultural stratification reality... how do we not all just get along but how do we work for some kind of common ground or commons where we can all thrive?
Anyway, todays lookabouting brought me to one Charles Leadbeater http://zero.newassignment.net/assignmentzero/charles_leadbeater_key_writer_thinker_consultant#
who's new book project "We think" might be worth checking out ... Soooo...
http://wethink.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
It's time for me to go back to www.dialogdemocracy.org and spruce it up and give it a little more coherence in terms of what I am really gonna try and call for whilst blogging about.
Jeff Jarvis is a guy billed as a Citizen Journalist Activist. Check him out at:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/about-me/
All these high level white folks already part of the digerati elite and living there uber upper middle class lives. Can they connect with a progressive political movement that includes people of vastly differing and diverse backgrounds and cultures? And what about the folks's that need to be mobilized who are so fundamentally left out of the opportunity structures so comfortably utilized by the college professors and writers and political organizers and other movers and shakers of the current cultural stratification reality... how do we not all just get along but how do we work for some kind of common ground or commons where we can all thrive?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Musings on being ready to Back Barack...
...
Originally written 5/2/2008 11:42 AM
I really am starting to like Barack Obama much more as the campaign and fundraising and jive ass shallow advertising drag on and on. Even though I think B.O. is somewhat automatically corrupted just by having risen this up the “mainstream” he still is I think, the most inspiring of potentially idealistic activist progressive agents for change to emerge in that mainstream American political landscape since Bobby Kennedy was gunned down in `68 just months after MLK was. Time it was and what a time it was- eh?
And I think fears that the same could happen to Barack if he’s elected are real but that isn’t necessarily the way the Right will neutralize him. He could just be a one term blip who is made to look so bad by circumstances along with the same “vast right wing conspiracy” that relentlessly badgered the Clintons even as they were out Reaganing Reagan pretty much their whole eight years of having their chance to turn the tides…
And there is so much they can do to make him look bad. Things like really letting the economy bottom out for the next four years. I mean- really let people suffer. Sure, it’s the Neocons that mismanaged everything to corruptly funnel resources to the Big Boy Cronie Network they work for- but six months into the Democrats being in power it’s going to be them and the Clintons being blamed and Barack will just be the Pawn Prez till the new Neocon annointee emerges.
(maybe not a Bush this time but I say that’s when things really are going to get scary- a charismatic newcomer who actually can pull off a better image than W. and sound like he knows what he’s talking about and that it’s him saying what he’s saying. I mean- if half the country can buy the Neocons agenda with Bush and Cheney quarterbacking their team just think how a next generation Iraq War Hero with West Point or The Citadel credentials could inspire the Great American People.)
Or maybe it won’t be a real Iraq War Hero but another actor. I’m thinking Chuck Norris now. Or what about a repackaged Newt Gingrich. He’ll come out all critical of the Bushies and trumpet the great accomplishments of his “Contract on Americans” and invoke the Saint Hood of Ronnie Ray Guns and low and behold the mainstream media will have him framed as a real life Thomas Jefferson or Tom Paine.
But however this election goes the resources of the wealthiest 1-5% will be mostly focused on seeing that no wealth or resources anywhere in the world can be used or developed for the general wealth, commons, and or well being of local populations or indigenous souls anywhere, anyhow, no way… Like always. And that is going to be a hell a lot for this current bunch (including Barack) of the so called Democratic Party opposition to overcome.
So my point is they may be able to kill the hope he represents better just by making him look ineffectual and not up to making a difference after all and four years from now look out- or, President McCain becomes the New Ray Gun and his VP will be a Dan Quayle or Sonnie Dubya type who becomes the next figurehead down the line while Cheney (and later on down the line his everlasting eternal fully functional virtual reality holigram) keeps doing what the Global Corporate Board `O the Whirl tells him from the Control Panel in his combination Hunting Lodge/ Missile Proof Bunker.
Originally written 5/2/2008 11:42 AM
I really am starting to like Barack Obama much more as the campaign and fundraising and jive ass shallow advertising drag on and on. Even though I think B.O. is somewhat automatically corrupted just by having risen this up the “mainstream” he still is I think, the most inspiring of potentially idealistic activist progressive agents for change to emerge in that mainstream American political landscape since Bobby Kennedy was gunned down in `68 just months after MLK was. Time it was and what a time it was- eh?
And I think fears that the same could happen to Barack if he’s elected are real but that isn’t necessarily the way the Right will neutralize him. He could just be a one term blip who is made to look so bad by circumstances along with the same “vast right wing conspiracy” that relentlessly badgered the Clintons even as they were out Reaganing Reagan pretty much their whole eight years of having their chance to turn the tides…
And there is so much they can do to make him look bad. Things like really letting the economy bottom out for the next four years. I mean- really let people suffer. Sure, it’s the Neocons that mismanaged everything to corruptly funnel resources to the Big Boy Cronie Network they work for- but six months into the Democrats being in power it’s going to be them and the Clintons being blamed and Barack will just be the Pawn Prez till the new Neocon annointee emerges.
(maybe not a Bush this time but I say that’s when things really are going to get scary- a charismatic newcomer who actually can pull off a better image than W. and sound like he knows what he’s talking about and that it’s him saying what he’s saying. I mean- if half the country can buy the Neocons agenda with Bush and Cheney quarterbacking their team just think how a next generation Iraq War Hero with West Point or The Citadel credentials could inspire the Great American People.)
Or maybe it won’t be a real Iraq War Hero but another actor. I’m thinking Chuck Norris now. Or what about a repackaged Newt Gingrich. He’ll come out all critical of the Bushies and trumpet the great accomplishments of his “Contract on Americans” and invoke the Saint Hood of Ronnie Ray Guns and low and behold the mainstream media will have him framed as a real life Thomas Jefferson or Tom Paine.
But however this election goes the resources of the wealthiest 1-5% will be mostly focused on seeing that no wealth or resources anywhere in the world can be used or developed for the general wealth, commons, and or well being of local populations or indigenous souls anywhere, anyhow, no way… Like always. And that is going to be a hell a lot for this current bunch (including Barack) of the so called Democratic Party opposition to overcome.
So my point is they may be able to kill the hope he represents better just by making him look ineffectual and not up to making a difference after all and four years from now look out- or, President McCain becomes the New Ray Gun and his VP will be a Dan Quayle or Sonnie Dubya type who becomes the next figurehead down the line while Cheney (and later on down the line his everlasting eternal fully functional virtual reality holigram) keeps doing what the Global Corporate Board `O the Whirl tells him from the Control Panel in his combination Hunting Lodge/ Missile Proof Bunker.
Reviewing and sharing some places I’ve been…
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
An article http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10348/ at “Common Dreams” originally published on Monday, July 14, 2008 by The Independent/UK by Leonard Doyle titled “Bush to Hasten Iraq Troop Withdrawal to Help McCain Win White House”. Gee gosh, they wouldn’t do anything underhanded or politically motivated concerning how, why, or when American troops are deployed into or out of harms way, would they?
7/15/2008 11:51 AM
More and more as I gear up, ramp up, amp up my blogging toward real world real time right here right now just doing it time I think- where this all can lead has to be something more than what it’s doing so far. There seems to be two main camps on the “Potential” democratizing effects the Internet in general and the roll of blogging specifically might or should have on things. Meantime if you look around the Internet and read blogs of various partisan stripes you will find that everything under the sun is “out there”. One can pick and choose from all manner of quality and partisan niches.
So just because something is being blogged about don’t really matter. It don’t mean squat. But the big thing is the potential for a different kind of “Citizen Journalism”- yeah sure that- to evolve but also along with it new kinds of capabilities for citizen activism to emerge which might ideally level the playing field and ultimately take money out of the ultimate equation enough so that the interests of the American people might be put first rather than marginalized in the interest of serving the needs of the biggest players in Imperial Global Capitalism.
Somewhere somebody once said that if only the people who actually benefited and thrived under the policies of Ronald RayGun’s administrations had voted for him he’d have gotten maybe 5% of the popular vote. Now I think that may be a wee bit of an exaggeration but still… even if 15% could be argued the fact is that the conservative majority has been built on a foundation of duplicity, false advertising, election stealing, wholesale gerrymandering, and buying elections with their almost unfathomable material resource advantage. Which is only worsening as the Income Divide of this New Gilded Age gets worse with every newly occurring shakeout or adjustment in the “Global Economy”.
When will it become obvious enough that there can be no meaningful Democracy, economic justice, or much of a civil society (outside of the gated communities and corporate green zone bunker communities of the one percenters) when the wealthiest 1% of a country owns or controls 60+% of the wealth? Or at least obvious enough for the American people to wake up from there delusion that we’re all in this together and that our National elites are operating in the best interests of all of us out here who are just scuffling to get by? And by waking up I mean taking the kind of civic and Democratic action necessary to get us onto a different path with significantly more heart than the one displayed by Faux Macho Neocon insanity or their other side of the aisle complicitous limp wristed “bipartisan opposition.”
That’s where the potential of blogging and the internet and more efficient and coordinated progressive grass roots organizing can com into the mix in amore profound way than ever in the history of the Union. Because, as Martin Luther King once said: "Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war."
An article http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/14/10348/ at “Common Dreams” originally published on Monday, July 14, 2008 by The Independent/UK by Leonard Doyle titled “Bush to Hasten Iraq Troop Withdrawal to Help McCain Win White House”. Gee gosh, they wouldn’t do anything underhanded or politically motivated concerning how, why, or when American troops are deployed into or out of harms way, would they?
7/15/2008 11:51 AM
More and more as I gear up, ramp up, amp up my blogging toward real world real time right here right now just doing it time I think- where this all can lead has to be something more than what it’s doing so far. There seems to be two main camps on the “Potential” democratizing effects the Internet in general and the roll of blogging specifically might or should have on things. Meantime if you look around the Internet and read blogs of various partisan stripes you will find that everything under the sun is “out there”. One can pick and choose from all manner of quality and partisan niches.
So just because something is being blogged about don’t really matter. It don’t mean squat. But the big thing is the potential for a different kind of “Citizen Journalism”- yeah sure that- to evolve but also along with it new kinds of capabilities for citizen activism to emerge which might ideally level the playing field and ultimately take money out of the ultimate equation enough so that the interests of the American people might be put first rather than marginalized in the interest of serving the needs of the biggest players in Imperial Global Capitalism.
Somewhere somebody once said that if only the people who actually benefited and thrived under the policies of Ronald RayGun’s administrations had voted for him he’d have gotten maybe 5% of the popular vote. Now I think that may be a wee bit of an exaggeration but still… even if 15% could be argued the fact is that the conservative majority has been built on a foundation of duplicity, false advertising, election stealing, wholesale gerrymandering, and buying elections with their almost unfathomable material resource advantage. Which is only worsening as the Income Divide of this New Gilded Age gets worse with every newly occurring shakeout or adjustment in the “Global Economy”.
When will it become obvious enough that there can be no meaningful Democracy, economic justice, or much of a civil society (outside of the gated communities and corporate green zone bunker communities of the one percenters) when the wealthiest 1% of a country owns or controls 60+% of the wealth? Or at least obvious enough for the American people to wake up from there delusion that we’re all in this together and that our National elites are operating in the best interests of all of us out here who are just scuffling to get by? And by waking up I mean taking the kind of civic and Democratic action necessary to get us onto a different path with significantly more heart than the one displayed by Faux Macho Neocon insanity or their other side of the aisle complicitous limp wristed “bipartisan opposition.”
That’s where the potential of blogging and the internet and more efficient and coordinated progressive grass roots organizing can com into the mix in amore profound way than ever in the history of the Union. Because, as Martin Luther King once said: "Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war."
Monday, July 14, 2008
Getting back to it...
...and more and more as I study up on "what's out there" and "going on" with Blogging and the Internet and it's potential for positive progressive big D Democratic change the more I think I am more or less on the right track. Will post more on this after visiting with me old lad a little bit more and getting a mellowing and hopefully uplifting swim in at the club. Yeah that's right I said it: the club.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
More from Joel Hirschhorn…
...This guy is the type `o person I will be contacting about the proposed dialogD agenda and means for working towards achieving such an agenda as I move forward with my efforts to advocate just that. This link http://www.counterpunch.org/hirschhorn11102007.html is to an article about the general state of the two party collaboration in business and politics as usual and http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com/ is a book promoting site for his book entitled, oddly enough, Delusional Democracy.
Toward a 2nd American Revolution...
Throughout dialogD there are calls for deep and profound change and re-democratization of all aspects of American politics, economics, culture, education, and society as a whole. This article http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0213-02.htm by Joel S. Hirshhorn makes a similar call…
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