30 October 2012

"Live your life in a way that doesn't make a mockery of your values."


Today, back from the Midwest U.S. after 6 months, driven with a new yet familiar awakening of a fluid letting go-ness, a natural familiarity with the revolution driving me, I stop in a public library to take shelter from the rain. While waiting for a computer, I read in the current issue of Rolling Stone (Nov. 8, 2012) the story of the federal prosecution of a young DIY hacktivist described by a close friend as a "modern day Abbie Hoffman." It's the story of Jeremy Hammond, and the article is called "Enemy of the State: The Rise and Fall of an American Revolutionary." Feeling the necessity now more than ever, the sense of urgency, to make every moment real and new, to remove myself from any inhibiting traces of past ideologies, I'm inspired by a quote from Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader who influenced Hammond possibly while teaching at the University of Illinois--Chicago since Hammond was a student there at the same time. The quote originally appears in Ayers' memoir, Fugitive Days.
LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T MAKE A MOCKERY OF YOUR VALUES.
As I continue looking through the artifice, I take note of the signs, the messages, pushing themselves through my thick head until they register. This one will continue to be relevant, and I will try to maintain a consciousness of it.

05 June 2012

The Future of Social Networking: A Vision [part 1]


what if each person's social online content was a book in its own right that had the full access and privileges to reach as many people as possible all over the world, that was able to ensure that it was reaching the people it intended to reach, to use the tools that are only reserved for corporate publishers, advertising and marketing agencies worldwide? would the system collapse, or would there be a system restore?

The Future of Social Networking: A Vision [part 2]


what if social networking wasn't just a term that referred to disconnected people finding each other through the internet? what if the infrastructure was in place to sustain a world that was based on sustainable relationships? what if people acted locally and thought globally, and welcomed people from anywhere on the planet into their local community as friends? or what if we bridged the gaps between those who have much and those who have little? how much longer can this possibly take? whether you have a nihilistic view that destruction of our species is inevitable, an idealistic view that the best for the world is inevitable, or a resolved view that both are inevitable and coexistent, one thing is common between us all: we want to know what we are. we want to go home. what are you doing to take us there?