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I think being a good media student requires watching live T.V. of the demographics you hope to reach.

Web and cable, especially in the land of Tivo, are very different depending on which demographic you are in.

The truths we find self evident may not be so simply by lack of exposure.

There is a certain innocence, as well, to commercial network television - like the radio shows of old.


The challenge on the Web is to find new audiences without abandoning the old.

Most organizations and businesses really have a limited chance of success in a Web 2.0 environment if people cannot marshall the resources to use these tools.

Storage and display of media that once would have cost significant dollars are now available for free.

The only missing, more or less, is a framework accessible enough for the content producers to use themselves, the way the accessility of high quality video and audio production tools revolutioized the video and music industry.

We simply would not have the quality of entertainment we have today were it not for wider distribution of the tools of production.

The Joomla tools we are assembling are making that goal more and more real.

Beyond the ideas of broadening relegere, Cicero's etymology of the word religio, related to re-read, to consider carefully, is the idea of spreading consciousness through greater and greater awareness of all the voices in the world.

Again, I believe that humans are frightened, and sometimes do fearful things as a result.

The more we can bring ourselves to a greater and greater awareness of just how many people are our neighbors.

Individual acts of violence will always exist. Disagreements. Conflicts.

The point of maximizing compassion is to maximize compassion. There may never be a permanent kumbaya moment in our physical or social evolution. We may never achieve utopia.

But we have to try.

We have to believe that the work we do matters somehow, somewhere, beyond ourselves.

How else, looking at the sorrows around us, can we look forward in Joy?

Knowing abundance requires faith in abundance, not in a vibrate the troubles of the world sort of way, but with enough release of the biographical self that we take hope in the minor trajectories we can impact.

As Gandhi said, "What you do will probably be insignificant, but you must still do it.

I think the temptation exists to succumb to the temptation on the mount, being a leader of kingdoms, have castles of our very own.

But those dreams represented wasted lives, in many cases, when wealth becomes the pursuit. When protection of wealth becomes the primary mode of operation, the monkey brain grabbing for more and more of the loot.

Part of successful entrepreneurship is breaking through old paradigms. The problem with our existing government and corporate structures, in particular the governance and prosecution of intellectual property rights, is that they are functioning outside of human accountability.

Bill Gates should be a wealthy man - he earned it. But he should not be able to wield so much unmitigated power in the primary communications and production medium of the information age. Microsoft, and other major IP players, are cannibalizing future generations, by building castles around ideas. These ideas, these innovations will become increasingly unreachable in the U.S., forcing not only work overseas but ideas, information workers themselves.

If we are to develop a sustainable infrastructure and economics for the future, we are going to do some massive, massive reengineering of our global society.

In the U.S., chaos will rule if we pretend that this is not inevitable.

If we can delay that onset by at least maintaining a position where our companies can innovate, even if they offshore production.

Markets are already adapting in some ways, in cities like St. Louis, where more cooperative and low impact life styles are being chosen.

The resurgance of the city of St. Louis will be the resurgence of an emergent intentional middle class, living simple, high quality lives. Same thing with choices many people in their mid-twenties are making across the world, knowing how empty consumer lives are.

It must be one more reason why our war waging must seem even more shocking to the world.

We are creating our own deprivation.

I think we are on the dawn of new age of transparent communications and economy that will allow a more global consciousness to emerge. The spiritual components of that are obvious outcomes, but they must also exist with the systems and processes to allow that critical mass of awareness to exist.

The same way that the basic token of exchange is communication and trade.