how the world works section?
CLASSIFICATION section
There is no one 'right' way, different political ideas and priorities come from different personal values - what are you?
World's Smallest Political Quiz
The Political Compass - same thing, but more accurate
ISSUES WE FACE/POV section
The system (democratic capitalism) generally works - my concern is the things that undermine the system
Democracy, news and media The social effects of the commercialization of the mass media are a big problem journalist: both freedom and responsibility, all the way up the chain
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from the Committee of Concerned Journalists:
"We are facing the possibility that independent news will be replaced by self-interested commercialism posing as news. If that occurs, we will lose the press as an independent institution, free to monitor the other powerful forces and institutions in society."
the main purpose of journalism is to provide people with the information they need to be free and self-governing.
To fulfill this task:
--Committee of Concerned Journalists
Information citizens need to be free and self-governing:
- How government (local, regional, national) is functioning
- whether it is serving all the people adequately
- if not, who/what is responsible and what can be done about it
- Money, economic trends affecting:
- prices
- jobs
- housing
- taxes
- Social Issues, affecting quality of life:
- health
- education
- crime
--Walter Cronkite
What Has Value? distractions of materialism and status chasing - people must take resposibility, not allow "fetish capitalism" to pander to them - it corrupts. It lessens the power of people, gives power to "desire" - this power can become so lopsided that even good people can't resist it.
Israel/Palestine - self feeding dynamic (give the history, at least that one tape) - nobody knows how to stop it - big problems call for big solutions: love is the only real answer
US Debt Somebody will end up paying this... US Debt More of US Debt
Global Warming/Environment carbon impact calculator
Energy Independence I'm all for interdependence, but not if it means injustice to meet energy needs.
Internet What a great tool! Lets keep it open and free - don't charge for traffic.
Conspiracies - I'd like to see official investigation into these topics:
President's Illegal Wiretapping
WTC collapse
Voting Machine
INFORMATION section
Education is the key. Well, love is the key; but education is the tool.
Many Voices, One World The MacBride Report 1980
pretty dry reading, but jeez, this is the stuff: equality for all in the information age
Conclusions and Recommendations Continuing Work
World GameBuckminster Fuller
Global Simulation Game
Teenager's Guide to the Real World Marshall Brain 1997
How life works.
table of contents
STUDY section
but have faith! Humanity has gotten through challenges before! These are just the challenges of our age.
History On the whole, people haven't changed that much in the past 8,000 years.
why its cool: what we did reveals what we will do -- it all repeats, and it also reveals who we are.
Are you into history? Here are timelines for just about everything!
Memes So thats how it works!
Propaganda
Peanuts theme (14Kb) Its not that I'm such a great Peanuts fan, its just that its such a great song! It gets me thinking.