Post by karlsie on Dec 19, 2008 19:05:36 GMT -5
I neglected to give a summary of subject suggestion coverage last week as everyone seemed to be channeling into their current thoughts. There is always the need of introspection and appraisal. The ebbing tide murmurs faintly. The resurgents group and mumble. A minus four tide always precipitates record breaking high tides. There's a new year coming in, so let's get out our surf boards.
We're all conscious of the challenges Obama will face when he takes office. Current politics have carried us to a very dangerous precipice. It's difficult at this point to judge whether his decisions will further divide the country or create a new state of civic harmony and determination to work together. What will be done about the jobless situation? Can the housing market be stabilized, with affordable housing for all the various social classes? Obama says we're "going green". What type of favoritism will be involved? Will corporate farming be affected?
I like Maya's inaugural address idea mainly because it's a good stimulus for identifying and articulating not only our beliefs, but how to deliver them persuasively. Subversify may not have exactly the same aqenda as Obama. Its ideas may still be in the development stage; not quite infantile, but not fully mature. All good ideas have building blocks beneath their foundation. Those blocks are used for creating a common accord with an agreeable populace. Who are our agreeable populace? What do we say that strikes a chord? How do we wish to use the effects of our accord to influence our readers? When we can answer these questions, we have a good basis for our own address.
There has been much targeting around the various types of war employed by and against society. War is always subversive in its nature; secret wars, silent wars, cold wars, civil unrest. We are in a state of constant war. The greatest problems in these wars, is each element of extremes feel entitled to their objective. There is a rationale involved, no matter how errant it seems to another. We all wish to thrive yet we live in a world of billions. In its most essential form, it's a war of survival; but for whom? With the baby boom population advancing into old age, many of the Western countries are feeling an overall shrinkage; the death rate is overtaking the birth rate. In some of the eastern countries, the birth to death rate has begun equaling out. The significance of this shift is already being felt in the American economy, through the retired numbers and eligible work force. The current anti-abortion and anti-birth control shifts are probably no co-incidence. How do we adjust our shrinking population, which by all appearances is necessary, to our immediate needs? How do global interests fit into the scheme?
We've tossed around the idea of historical, documentary type coverage, yet so far, that area has scarcely been touched. Our heroes of revolution were anarchists of their society; whether they were gentle writers or formidable leaders. They articulated themselves well. They were visionary in their presentations. They were people worth writing about. Let's think about the writers who influenced us and why. A story worth telling once, is worth telling again.
We're all conscious of the challenges Obama will face when he takes office. Current politics have carried us to a very dangerous precipice. It's difficult at this point to judge whether his decisions will further divide the country or create a new state of civic harmony and determination to work together. What will be done about the jobless situation? Can the housing market be stabilized, with affordable housing for all the various social classes? Obama says we're "going green". What type of favoritism will be involved? Will corporate farming be affected?
I like Maya's inaugural address idea mainly because it's a good stimulus for identifying and articulating not only our beliefs, but how to deliver them persuasively. Subversify may not have exactly the same aqenda as Obama. Its ideas may still be in the development stage; not quite infantile, but not fully mature. All good ideas have building blocks beneath their foundation. Those blocks are used for creating a common accord with an agreeable populace. Who are our agreeable populace? What do we say that strikes a chord? How do we wish to use the effects of our accord to influence our readers? When we can answer these questions, we have a good basis for our own address.
There has been much targeting around the various types of war employed by and against society. War is always subversive in its nature; secret wars, silent wars, cold wars, civil unrest. We are in a state of constant war. The greatest problems in these wars, is each element of extremes feel entitled to their objective. There is a rationale involved, no matter how errant it seems to another. We all wish to thrive yet we live in a world of billions. In its most essential form, it's a war of survival; but for whom? With the baby boom population advancing into old age, many of the Western countries are feeling an overall shrinkage; the death rate is overtaking the birth rate. In some of the eastern countries, the birth to death rate has begun equaling out. The significance of this shift is already being felt in the American economy, through the retired numbers and eligible work force. The current anti-abortion and anti-birth control shifts are probably no co-incidence. How do we adjust our shrinking population, which by all appearances is necessary, to our immediate needs? How do global interests fit into the scheme?
We've tossed around the idea of historical, documentary type coverage, yet so far, that area has scarcely been touched. Our heroes of revolution were anarchists of their society; whether they were gentle writers or formidable leaders. They articulated themselves well. They were visionary in their presentations. They were people worth writing about. Let's think about the writers who influenced us and why. A story worth telling once, is worth telling again.