my post was not directed at you nor a direct response to anything you had said. sorry for the confusion there. i injected it here in this thread as a general sentiment towards how fucked up and backwards the system is.
On 12/28/06, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Imagine all the people living life in peace? > > I won't profess to know what elections would look like under your > hypothetical model. I'm not concerned with the hypothetical. Nor does > any of this have anything to do with my original statement, which is that > I perceive John Edwards as being cannon fodder in the upcoming election. > I wish him well. I like the guy. I just think that, should he survive > the primaries, he won't survive the shooting gallery waiting for him. > > I also do believe that Internet-based media and online small-donation > funding will play a role in the upcoming election. I just happen to not > believe that the grassroots is sufficient today to overcome the kind of > dialog control that America's right executes. > > Furthermore, I'm in Internet video because it's an alternative to film > school that I can afford (in terms of both time and money). If and when I > make something that voices the previously unvoiced, that's good, and I am > grateful for the opportunity, but I'm not interested in revolutions. I'm > not interested in what "ought to be". My interests are in what lies > before us right now and how to deal with it. I'm also not interested in > being told what I should personally be doing. I'm glad you're out there > living and speaking your truth, but the truth I'm interested in is the > immediate and quantifiable. > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > > > Imagine if Campaigning+MSMcoverage+NetworkTV were disallowed? > [...] > > The system and foundation must change for elections.... at some point in > > the > > next 50 years. Not enough attention is on the proper type of reforms > > needed. That should be one of the next revolutions that YOU should be > > getting involved with. > > > > In the mean time, let's hope that the supplemental sources of > > communication > > that we have today such as net video, audio, blogging and online > > crowdfunding systems help make at least a bit of difference in 2008. > > > > sull > > > -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
