--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Valid observations, but there are a number of emerging factors that provide a counter force, or a new direction. > With respect to the "media myth", I think you have it exactly backwards. USA as the bastion > of freedom and democracy is the media myth. One has only to see who owns the media to > understand how this could be the case. Blogs. Podcasting and Internet radio -- huge diversity of independent news sources -- and cheap production giving the "pen" to the masses. Diversity of cable news and print media sources, including from overseaas. Indie films. Garage recording studios with internet distribution. "Affordable" Hi-Def video-cams allowing professional video, along with internet distribution. WiFi everywhere. > Outside the USA, the Evil Empire view is currently almost universal. It has particularly > floated to the surface with the current administration, coincidentally. And in 2008 Biden, Clinton, McCain or Guillardi copuld be president which will at least modify those views. > The history of military adventurism and economic exploitation, the subvesion of foreign > governments, etc, is well established, but it NOT generally explored in the mainstream > media. See above media comments. I am learning much more of the above from the above above. > More blatant recent developments regarding fraudulent elections ultimately, technology will get it right, virtualy elimintng he crap of the past two elections. > and the subversions of > our civil liberties Seantors just stood down the Patriot Act extension. > are merely the more recent and obvious indicators of corporate fascism. Read Tom Friedman's The World is Fat. I mean Flat. Corporate power is becoming increadibly diffused, distributed around the globe. > Europeans, having had more experience with these things, tend to see us as naive > barbarians. And South Africans hate the Dutch > Most Americans, on the other hand, tend to be in denial about it. See above media comments. It is a powerful force to change awareness. Those in the early stages > of owning it tend to be angry and/or frightened. And yet all of the above developments are reason for optimism and joy. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Drugs Don't Discriminate. Get help for yourself or someone you know. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0I.OUB/ZbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
