I wonder how much of what goes on over there is getting back to us as news. Even the guerrilla journalists have gone quiet (at least the ones I know.) Might be easier to cover the Ferguson Missouri racial divide (imbued with the KKK for generations.)
On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 2:08:54 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > I think we have outside and inner confused. The right ideology of > self-reliance is a chronic lie writ large. Hollywood printed various > legends about this, including cub reporters bringing corruption to light. > If a few of us looked back on our film experiences we would probably get > to see just how much we were being fooled by a slick propaganda system. I > think we need more biology in mind on how disabling living in groups is - > and think beyond this and self-reliance. Broader linking thought is > needed. Ban the Bomb is fine, but presumably give it up and do nothing > about stopping those guys who keep women in black bags building what we > have given up - is presumably dumb ducking of the worst order. > > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 6:15:17 PM UTC+1, Molly wrote: >> >> Being fed the human dead is an apt metaphor. The sleeping human might >> also be on point. TV is awful, few movies in our house make it to the "not >> a stinker" category. On whole, I am glad the warmer weather is upon us so >> that my attention will be directed outside with a greater "to do" list, >> including a new circle study to hang on the garden shed to compliment the >> black sun. And yet, on the whole I think the quality of my inner workings >> is up to me and not Hollywood. >> >> Journalists used to vet our politicians and investigate the hidden. Or >> did I just think it was doing that? Now I find it going through the motions >> and selling out to sensationalism and private interest. >> >> On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 12:56:22 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>> >>> One might think of this more directly in terms of a spiritual grasp of >>> the whole. I don't mean chanting monks as Orn would tell us about, but >>> rather whatever might have us involved (though chanting monks are surely >>> more interesting than live television watching people sleep - presumably >>> hoping they won't wake up and make things even more boring). We might list >>> responses from Allan's sig line, chanting monks, soap opera, libidinal >>> newsrooms and direct action to living in a big data field that is very >>> distressing. >>> >>> Allan's sig line - raises wicked witch of Berlin leading to >>> 'arguments' that distract from what real issues might be >>> Chanting monks - may have pleasant voices >>> Reality TV - needs cameras following idiots that 'watch' it >>> Libidinal newsrooms - need surveillance of quasi and real masturbation >>> fantasies (people write in protesting they can't see the legs of female >>> news presenters) >>> >>> All these matters and ,many more could be looked at in a big data >>> framework in which we could see the 'individual' formed in terms of time >>> spent in what is mostly not activity concerned with fulfilment. Looking at >>> television schedules, Sue and I find almost nothing to watch and most of >>> that made 20 years ago and more. Metaphorically, we think the >>> entertainment industry and internet powers, education and politics feed us >>> Soylent Green! >>> >>> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 13:53:18 UTC+1, Molly wrote: >>>> >>>> "The tragedy of journalism now is that it is demand driven. And when >>>> you ask people what they want, we're like one of those rats that have a >>>> lever to push and cocaine comes out. And once that happens one time, >>>> they'll stay there till they die, until more of the drug appears. We can't >>>> help loving lurid stories and suspense and the kind of sex and violence >>>> which the news is now made up of," Marty Kaplan >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marty-Kaplan/220259631346836> tells >>>> Bill in this interview. >>>> http://billmoyers.com/segment/marty-kaplan-on-the-weapons-of-mass-distraction/ >>>> >>>> "The power of mass distraction" is an interesting notion, and I find >>>> that it is much easier for people to look away from a problem than to >>>> contribute to a solution. Part of that may be disagreement on what the >>>> solution is. Much of it may be the overall malaise of "nothing I can do >>>> about it" as most of us feel we have no real influence on the larger world >>>> problems. In the past four years I've seen a dramatic drop in public >>>> demonstrations in downtown Detroit and most of the demonstrations that >>>> happen are of the "for hire" variety, with the same nationally based >>>> organizers who are making a buck off the movement (big time) and choose >>>> the >>>> causes carefully to insure that. >>>> >>>> I demonstrated during the Vietnam demonstration era and found that many >>>> of my pier group became social organizers afterward, not organizing >>>> demonstrations but organizing communities from within, more of social >>>> service than social activism as we know it today. There are huge >>>> demonstrations going on all over the world but not many here in the US. >>>> Does this mean we are giving into distraction and looking away from >>>> solutions waiting for the action to implement? Or is there a different >>>> social organization emerging, one more of collaboration than dissension? >>>> Or >>>> something else? >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
