It is a SciFi analogy: parallel worlds where the protagonists discover a parallel dystopia, at least compared to their world. But the dystopia is actually OUR world. The world they live in is a Swedenesque social democracy.
I have shot 10 minutes of video. But I need to create the interdimensional window. What can I use to do that? I am using Adobe Premiere to edit.
One problem is that there are many people who do not read all that much, or at least not in depth. That is why when broadband gets cheap, political activists will be able to reach a much larger audience with video projects. Also, there are still many people who although they are on the Net, do not access that much outside of the mainstream, big dollar websites.
If you want to make the Republican National Committee spend money needlessly, and deplete their supply of propaganda, just order one of their propaganda DVDs HERE
Because there is such a high barrier to entry for the media infrastructure, naturally most the political ideas that are disseminated from the media are "top down", favoring the status quo, favoring those in power, etc.
But when the media infrastructure includes p2p networks, cheap digital cameras, and free editing and effects software, I would think that the political ideas disseminated would be more "bottom up", which would be ideas favoring the bottom of the social, economic hierarchy. For example, right now, universal healthcare is not found in America, and that is a good thing for the rich, for the corporations, and the investors, because it disempowers the workers, giving them less control, placing them at a disadvantage. But when entertainment is generated independent of powerful and entrenched media infrastructure, I would think that universal healthcare would become a political priority.
you are capturing the grassroots political zeitgeist of the day, correct? I mean, you have taken it out of the air, and applied it absurdly to ice, and it is funny, but it can only be funny if there is some truth to it, right?
I was a rightwing paleo con 10 years, before I got on the Net, but now I am a confirmed leftist, and the reason why is encapsulated in your little joke. But I came across some of these ideas, albeit secondhand, 15 years ago, and I rejected them then. But now I accept them.
Once technology has lowered the high barrier-to-entry of multimedia distribution, i.e., once broadband gets cheap enough so that most households have it, then distributing a movie can be done over the p2p networks. As for making movies, digital cameras are getting super cheap. And then there is video editing software for next to nothing. Heck, I am even making a short movie right now. Look for it on kazaa in a month or so....
If you can get a job there, you can stay there a while, but you do not have all the benefits of a citizen, and becoming a citizen is rather hard.
The Internet is scaring the zillionaires?
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I think some of them are afraid of the dissent that is bubbling on up the net. Look at this thread: 10 years ago, it would have been almost unheard of for this many people to be questioning the system at once, while in communication together. And we what are fighting against is not a conspiracy--it is just a small segment of people who are powerful and who act in their own best interests. And sometimes they organize to better achieve their goals.
And of course there are those ordinary people who mistakenly think that they themselves are of that group, or they think that someday they will be of that group.
USAians forced to work more--Darwinian system
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Americans are forced to work more because they have no welfare state to back them up. Instead the gov't backs up the businessman, the corporation. France and almost all other western nations have strong welfare states. They force the gov't to work on their side, as opposed to the side of the wealthy, at least to a much greater degree than we see here in America. The French (and Danes, Swedes, Finns, Nords, Dutch, etc., are not as worried about their future survival if they get fired: they know the govt will support them. And they do not have to fear going without medical care--it is all paid for by taxes.
The europeans know more of how to work together to gain an advantage over the rich and the corporations. THeir advantage is based on the fact that their electoral system is more populist, as opposed to our American system, which is oligarchical--it favors the status quo.
Read this to get some sense of what I am talking about: http://www.american-pictures.com/english/r acism/ar ticles/welfare.htm
I been reading slashdot and posting for years. I did have another account at work, but I am now on unemployment (thanks to "free" trade), and I have used the spare time to get really educated and find out what politcal economy is all about.
I used to be an arrogant, ignorant, free marketeer, libertarian, just like you. But then our clients' stock prices when into the dumpster, and I found myself with a lot of spare time. And I used to get educated, INDEPENDENTLY educated.
Check out my little webpage. Read the links with an open mind.
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Most of this arrogant posts on this thread are from slashdotters who do not realize that their own chances of becoming poor in the future is much better than their chances of getting rich. And that is sad considering that the poor are so much greater in number than the rich.
Here are some numbers for the arrogant posters to digest: one third of all recent tax returns (single AND joint filers) have gross incomes of less than $20K, and almost 50% of them are less than $30K.
THe problem is that corporate propaganda has convinced most Americans that they are on the verge of getting rich. But the house always wins, numbkulls.....
Why not take the SAFE way, the prudent way, as they do in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Canada, etc etc, and RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH.
Are you a paid lobbyist for the Rightwing Wealthy?
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every citizen, as part of his/her citizenship dividend, should be entitled to a "free" computer and broadband connection. This is vital stuff for the upcoming social revolution built online.
This could be funded by raising the taxes on the rich by 1%, or some similarly small amount.
Additionally, taxes should be raised 15% or so on earned AND unearned income for the rich (those making 200K or more). That way we could afford to fully fund all education, fully fund universal healthcare for all citizens, and fully fund long term unemployment and welfare.
Once you have distributed the multimedia to enough people via the wiki, clients should be able to get it off of the p2p system.
And as a BIG bonus, once people start making their own movies, documentaries, etc., the pro-corporate, pro-business, top-down memes will have some competition from bottom-up memes. THat should change our conformist, political culture here in the USA.
Anyway, I hope the Big Corporations ARE able to control p2p so that copyright material cannot be traded (even though I am a world-class Kazaa and usenet binaries dog myself). Because they once the corporate capitalists have it rigged so that distribution of audiovisual entertainment is all done by networks, client server and p2p, then that will set them up for a Big Fall.
The only reason that America is in the grip of corporate capitalism is that mass media has been able to propagate top-down, business friendly memes into American living rooms. Their community has become hollowed out, and is the domain of the corporations. THat is why we work like dogs compared to citizens of the other western nations.
But when the p2p networks cannot be used to trade copyrighted material for free, then that vacuum, that demand for free movies, documentaries, sitcoms will be filled by "amateurs". And ya know what? With a little practice, and using cheap digital cameras and editing software, and free music, amateur actors, we leftists can crank out entertainment with leftist, bottom-up memes, anti-corporate sentiment, and toss it out on the p2p networks at very little cost.
You think 200 channels of cable tv is a lot? Wait until there are a million channels on the net 4 years from now, when wireless broadband has forced broadband prices down to where 70% of America has broadband.
Steven Spielberg on the upcoming changes: "Steven Spielberg has forecast that the Internet will eventually become the primary source for entertainment. Appearing on NBC's Today show on Thursday, Spielberg told cohost Katie Couric: "I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines." When Couric remarked, "Great, I'm gonna lose my job," Spielberg interjected, "We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.""
Give Americans a few years where they are not subjected only to top-down corporate memes, and then see where the political direction goes. I think we will head in Sweden's direction....and the Big Corporations will have brought it on themselves through their own greed....
You guys sure are spinning this as hard as possible. Do you think most of you are invested emotionally in free market/free trade ideas, or is it your financial interests that you are concerned about?
I was invested in that same political philosophy and worldview for years. But for some reason, I was able to re-evaluate my worldview of political economy. For the time being, they either cannot see the evidence in front of their eyes, or they are able to fool themselves. And fooling ourselves is something we humans are quite good at doing.
let's get right down to the source. It is neoliberalism we are talking about. Neoconservatives are supposedly the rightwing, more warlike neoliberals. Both the Dems and GOP are neoliberal, the GOP more so. For background, neoliberalism is associated with trickledown, supply side economics. neoliberalism == The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
Neoliberalism has dominated America since 1980.
Keynesianism used to be the prevailing economic philosophy here and in Europe. But when oil jumped up in the 70s, the Big Money used that as an excuse to jettison keynesianism for neoliberalism. Europe, Canada and Australia is much less neoliberal, and still keynesian. THat is why they have a higher standard of living, and do not have to scramble for their future like we Americans have to. THey have strong, fully funded social safety nets.
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South America will likely be the genesis of the new leftism, modeling after the social democracies, no doubt.
It is a SciFi analogy: parallel worlds where the protagonists discover a parallel dystopia, at least compared to their world. But the dystopia is actually OUR world. The world they live in is a Swedenesque social democracy.
I have shot 10 minutes of video. But I need to create the interdimensional window. What can I use to do that? I am using Adobe Premiere to edit.
they might make a big dent. Besides, maybe some of the /.ers might get...ummm....creative!
One problem is that there are many people who do not read all that much, or at least not in depth. That is why when broadband gets cheap, political activists will be able to reach a much larger audience with video projects.
Also, there are still many people who although they are on the Net, do not access that much outside of the mainstream, big dollar websites.
It will just take more time....
help yourself!
If you want to make the Republican National Committee spend money needlessly, and deplete their supply of propaganda, just order one of their propaganda DVDs HERE
Because there is such a high barrier to entry for the media infrastructure, naturally most the political ideas that are disseminated from the media are "top down", favoring the status quo, favoring those in power, etc.
But when the media infrastructure includes p2p networks, cheap digital cameras, and free editing and effects software, I would think that the political ideas disseminated would be more "bottom up", which would be ideas favoring the bottom of the social, economic hierarchy. For example, right now, universal healthcare is not found in America, and that is a good thing for the rich, for the corporations, and the investors, because it disempowers the workers, giving them less control, placing them at a disadvantage. But when entertainment is generated independent of powerful and entrenched media infrastructure, I would think that universal healthcare would become a political priority.
you are capturing the grassroots political zeitgeist of the day, correct? I mean, you have taken it out of the air, and applied it absurdly to ice, and it is funny, but it can only be funny if there is some truth to it, right?
I was a rightwing paleo con 10 years, before I got on the Net, but now I am a confirmed leftist, and the reason why is encapsulated in your little joke. But I came across some of these ideas, albeit secondhand, 15 years ago, and I rejected them then. But now I accept them.
Once technology has lowered the high barrier-to-entry of multimedia distribution, i.e., once broadband gets cheap enough so that most households have it, then distributing a movie can be done over the p2p networks. As for making movies, digital cameras are getting super cheap. And then there is video editing software for next to nothing.
Heck, I am even making a short movie right now. Look for it on kazaa in a month or so....
I AM a dog!
If you can get a job there, you can stay there a while, but you do not have all the benefits of a citizen, and becoming a citizen is rather hard.
I think some of them are afraid of the dissent that is bubbling on up the net. Look at this thread: 10 years ago, it would have been almost unheard of for this many people to be questioning the system at once, while in communication together.
And we what are fighting against is not a conspiracy--it is just a small segment of people who are powerful and who act in their own best interests. And sometimes they organize to better achieve their goals.
And of course there are those ordinary people who mistakenly think that they themselves are of that group, or they think that someday they will be of that group.
Americans are forced to work more because they have no welfare state to back them up. Instead the gov't backs up the businessman, the corporation. France and almost all other western nations have strong welfare states. They force the gov't to work on their side, as opposed to the side of the wealthy, at least to a much greater degree than we see here in America. The French (and Danes, Swedes, Finns, Nords, Dutch, etc., are not as worried about their future survival if they get fired: they know the govt will support them. And they do not have to fear going without medical care--it is all paid for by taxes.
r acism/ar ticles/welfare.htm
The europeans know more of how to work together to gain an advantage over the rich and the corporations. THeir advantage is based on the fact that their electoral system is more populist, as opposed to our American system, which is oligarchical--it favors the status quo.
Read this to get some sense of what I am talking about:
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/
Follow the money, people. Who is going to be hurt if fusion becomes viable?
...to each according to his need.
Why are young men drafted, and not old men? Are we punishing the young men?
Why do we pay social security payments to the old and not the young?
One Law For the Young and Another For the Old?
I been reading slashdot and posting for years. I did have another account at work, but I am now on unemployment (thanks to "free" trade), and I have used the spare time to get really educated and find out what politcal economy is all about.
I used to be an arrogant, ignorant, free marketeer, libertarian, just like you. But then our clients' stock prices when into the dumpster, and I found myself with a lot of spare time. And I used to get educated, INDEPENDENTLY educated.
Check out my little webpage. Read the links with an open mind.
Most of this arrogant posts on this thread are from slashdotters who do not realize that their own chances of becoming poor in the future is much better than their chances of getting rich. And that is sad considering that the poor are so much greater in number than the rich.
Here are some numbers for the arrogant posters to digest: one third of all recent tax returns (single AND joint filers) have gross incomes of less than $20K, and almost 50% of them are less than $30K.
THe problem is that corporate propaganda has convinced most Americans that they are on the verge of getting rich. But the house always wins, numbkulls.....
Why not take the SAFE way, the prudent way, as they do in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Canada, etc etc, and RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH.
Cuz I seriously doubt the truth of what you say
every citizen, as part of his/her citizenship dividend, should be entitled to a "free" computer and broadband connection. This is vital stuff for the upcoming social revolution built online.
This could be funded by raising the taxes on the rich by 1%, or some similarly small amount.
Additionally, taxes should be raised 15% or so on earned AND unearned income for the rich (those making 200K or more). That way we could afford to fully fund all education, fully fund universal healthcare for all citizens, and fully fund long term unemployment and welfare.
Once you have distributed the multimedia to enough people via the wiki, clients should be able to get it off of the p2p system.
And as a BIG bonus, once people start making their own movies, documentaries, etc., the pro-corporate, pro-business, top-down memes will have some competition from bottom-up memes. THat should change our conformist, political culture here in the USA.
Isn't that what Lenin said? Or was it Trotsky?
Anyway, I hope the Big Corporations ARE able to control p2p so that copyright material cannot be traded (even though I am a world-class Kazaa and usenet binaries dog myself). Because they once the corporate capitalists have it rigged so that distribution of audiovisual entertainment is all done by networks, client server and p2p, then that will set them up for a Big Fall.
The only reason that America is in the grip of corporate capitalism is that mass media has been able to propagate top-down, business friendly memes into American living rooms. Their community has become hollowed out, and is the domain of the corporations. THat is why we work like dogs compared to citizens of the other western nations.
But when the p2p networks cannot be used to trade copyrighted material for free, then that vacuum, that demand for free movies, documentaries, sitcoms will be filled by "amateurs". And ya know what? With a little practice, and using cheap digital cameras and editing software, and free music, amateur actors, we leftists can crank out entertainment with leftist, bottom-up memes, anti-corporate sentiment, and toss it out on the p2p networks at very little cost.
You think 200 channels of cable tv is a lot? Wait until there are a million channels on the net 4 years from now, when wireless broadband has forced broadband prices down to where 70% of America has broadband.
Steven Spielberg on the upcoming changes:
"Steven Spielberg has forecast that the Internet will eventually become the primary source for entertainment. Appearing on NBC's Today show on Thursday, Spielberg told cohost Katie Couric: "I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines." When Couric remarked, "Great, I'm gonna lose my job," Spielberg interjected, "We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.""
Give Americans a few years where they are not subjected only to top-down corporate memes, and then see where the political direction goes. I think we will head in Sweden's direction....and the Big Corporations will have brought it on themselves through their own greed....
You guys sure are spinning this as hard as possible. Do you think most of you are invested emotionally in free market/free trade ideas, or is it your financial interests that you are concerned about?
I was invested in that same political philosophy and worldview for years. But for some reason, I was able to re-evaluate my worldview of political economy. For the time being, they either cannot see the evidence in front of their eyes, or they are able to fool themselves. And fooling ourselves is something we humans are quite good at doing.
let's get right down to the source. It is neoliberalism we are talking about. Neoconservatives are supposedly the rightwing, more warlike neoliberals. Both the Dems and GOP are neoliberal, the GOP more so. For background, neoliberalism is associated with trickledown, supply side economics. neoliberalism == The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
Neoliberalism has dominated America since 1980.
Keynesianism used to be the prevailing economic philosophy here and in Europe. But when oil jumped up in the 70s, the Big Money used that as an excuse to jettison keynesianism for neoliberalism.
Europe, Canada and Australia is much less neoliberal, and still keynesian. THat is why they have a higher standard of living, and do not have to scramble for their future like we Americans have to. THey have strong, fully funded social safety nets.