McGee's Musings

	Monday, February 28, 2005

Going Home - Our Reformation

This should certainly be on your short list.

It does provide much on the vision of what might be coming to pass. It certainly represents much of what I would like to see come to pass and what I think might be possible to bring into being. It won't, however, come about simply because we would like it to or simply because we have new enabling tools or concepts. It is going to take work and that work will take place against the active and well-resourced resistance of many who benefit from the status quo and are sorely threatened by these visions of what might be.

Going Home - Our Reformation. If you read one thing this week, read this. One commentator described it as "brilliant... and beautiful... and inspiring." It is all of that, and more. It is a vision I support and that I and many other people I cite in this newsletter are working toward. The theme of coming home will likely resonate in my work for a long time.

Robert Paterson writes, "Is not our great problem that the great institutions of our time, government, healthcare, education, arts and entertainment, even business, no longer serve us but only themselves?

"Is not their organizational doctrine based on a dogma of control? Have they not divorced their world-view from observable reality? Is not this split from the laws of nature their dogma? Are they not prepared to fight to the death to preserve this dogma? Do we not see the entertainment industry as an Inquisition? Do we not see the IP industry as the agent of the controllers and not of the creative?

"Is not the new 'big idea' of our time to disintermediate the institutional middleman and to enable direct relationships? Are supermarkets eternal? Do we need factory universities to learn? Is our health dependent on a doctor? Is the news what we see on TV?"

Brave, brilliant, breathless stuff. If you miss this article, you are mising the essence of what this whole thing is about. By Robert Paterson, Robert Paterson's Weblog, February 26, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]

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Hold on to your sense of humor

What worries me more than anything else about today's public environment is the loss of any sense of humor by the powers that be. Granted, the powers that be are, by definition, likely to be humor challenged. But humor and the ability to laugh at oneself is essential to flexibility and adaptability. More than anything else, isn't that what we're likely to be most in need of in today's world?

Banned Comic.

Oh my, that's good.

The morons at the Tribune and three other papers banned this comic. Not only is it hysterical, it's accurate (and we all know it).

It's also now being viewed by my 10,000 daily readers. Please post the comic on your blog so your readers can help counteract this obvious political censorship.

-Russ By weblog@russellbeattie.com. [Russell Beattie Notebook]

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