Monday, April 18, 2005

Earthfamilyalpha Plans

In order to read this post,

You need to watch this.

When Lies Become Truth

Orwell Rolls In His Grave -

"Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..."

Director Robert Kane Pappas’ "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself..

This comes in two parts.

If you want a good copy, buy one from Buzzflash.


EARTHFAMILYALPHA PLANS

I think that people of conscience need to realize

that we are not going to fix this system.

Our Democracy, if it ever did work,

Is very broken.

Noam Chomskey talks about how the American system

of faux democracy is now the envy of tyrants the world over.

We have entered a time where we must use the freedom

and the connections and communication capabilities we have now

to create new inventions of social contract that transcend

the geographic state and corporate hegemony.

We can create our own domestic tranquility.

We can create our own truly free markets.

We can create our own communication systems and devices.

We can create our own systems of trade.

We can create energy systems, transportation systems,

and housing coops that stretch over the entire globe.

We cannot fight for a democratic party that serves the elite.

We cannot fight for a democracy that is an illusion of shaping.

We cannot fight against lobbyist that hire the unemployed,

to hold their place in line at the public hearing,

so they can control the docket.

We cannot fight by empowering those who see only consumers

who can be molded, marketed to, and plucked,

like a human cash crop.

We cannot fight those who protect the powerful,

and those who know no better.

We cannot fight at all.

At least not on their turf.

It will only waste our resources,

and frustrate our intent.

We must create a working, democratic, cyberstate.

Maybe not today,

Maybe not tomorrow.

But maybe by Tuesday.

Watch the Movie.

And let's make a Plan.


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6 Comments:

Blogger Charlie Loving said...

This is all true if you believe it? I was taken by the fact that most of the speakers were adults, gray beards who grew up in an era of "free society" of sorts.

So while the rats are in control the media reports on the squirrel who has learned to water ski and they have me watching 'Sponge Bob' because the news is so biased I can't stand it.

5:52 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope you to see something a little more concrete.

8:01 AM  
Blogger oZ said...

I am fashioning a piece right now. It will come out in several installments.

8:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I look forward to this. In fact, I have been looking forward to some real stuff ever since I found this site. Good Work though.

10:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The media is not the only culprit. The education system is.

3:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oz, give us a path to help you build this. I am a fully functional gray beard. Sadly, our era was never a "free society." The free part was only our vision. As it is yours.

7:01 PM  

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