The Truth About The Common Education System, from the Borg Agenda. | Conspiraverse. If you reflect back upon on your own experiences within the public school system you will begin to notice how there were many subsystems in place that were designed to not only to restrict your individuality but also to ensure your submission to authority. You will also recall that you were given little time to think for yourself or to think about issues that were really important to you. While in school you were indentated with trivial information that had and still has very little relevance to your existence as a creative being. Further strip away valuable moments that you could have used to think about your life, why you are here and what you hope to accomplish while here. Therefore, instead of discovering and realizing your true purpose and power you were assimilated into the collective consciousness of the hive.
It was the institution itself that defined your purpose which was to follow instructions, memorise senseless data, relinquish your atonomy as a creative if we can go on vacation. Surveillance Society Reversal | conversantlife.com. I saw an interesting article in Wired this morning from Clive Thompson, called "on Establishing Rules in the Videocam Age".
In this article, he talks about the new always on "sousveillance" culture. He talks about the way in which this always on video culture can be reversed from a culture of surveillance to one where people are instead turning their cameras back around to look at those in power. This particular development seems to mirror one of McLuhan's famous sayings in the Tetrad. McLuhan once laid claim that all new forms of media must be asked four questions. These four questions make up what he called the four laws of media. They are: "What does the medium enhance? " "What does the medium make obsolete? " "What does the medium retrieve (that has been obsolesced earlier)? " "What does the medium reverse (when pushed to extremes)? " When I read the above linked article, I began to think about this last question.
I have mixed feelings about this. Draft Paper on Mobile Phones and Activism. I’m giving a talk on activist uses of mobile phones in the developing world later this month. Prior to the talk, the organizers have asked me to submit a short paper on the topic - here’s a draft of what I’m planning on turning in, with the hope that you guys can offer some comments and make it better. If you ask a US-based activist the most important technical development of the past five years, they’ll likely tell you about the rise of citizen media, the use of blogs and web community sites to disseminate information, organize events and raise money.
Bloggers helped make Howard Dean a contender for the democratic nomination for president in 2004, and many of the people involved with his online campaign have gone on to develop increasingly complicated software, helping support efforts towards Congressional transparency as well as political organizing. Market estimates suggest that there are over 2 billion mobile phone users in the world today, heading towards 3.3 billion in 2010. Sousveillance. Tracing the Roots of #OccupyWallStreet | iCrossing Digital Marketing Blog, Search Engine Advertising Blog: iCrossing. Oct. 12, 2011 | by Stan Pugsley Occupy Wall Street certainly has emotional roots in the wreckage of the financial meltdown of 2008, and it has philosophical roots in Tahrir Square and other recent uprisings around the world. But what was the initial spark that created the movement here in the United States, and how did it spread? iCrossing conducted a detailed review of the digital trail of the Occupy Wall Street movement and found some fascinating trends: * Each instance of the movement initially emerged in social media * A gestation period followed with organizers shaping ideas and collecting feedback * On key dates, social media exploded at the same time that offline activity emerged * With each new city and country, the cycle has compressed into a shorter period This cycle demonstrates that viral activity is not an instantaneous event.
Ironically, the idea for the most significant U.S. social movement of the year started in Canada. Spoof Ads. The average human is a 28 year old, right handed chinese man with a mobile phone and no bank account. Recession leading to US educational drain. Video.