Oh. Well, in that case, no blood, no foul. ;) -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
> 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] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
