Is this a conservative leaning news aggregate blog? Or liberal? Why do we try, and usually succeed, in driving regional, national and world news down to where it sounds like it's local to us news?
Because all politics are local politics.
Because community should be focused on what is in both your front and back yard.
Because we believe in statehood and all the rights of empowerment inherent therein.
Because most politicians are still somewhat in the dark ages when it comes to social media. No matter how much they now tweet, stumbleupon, digg and Like.
Because the blogosphere is running the high risk of becoming no better than the mainstream media it taunts daily.
(whisper...whisper...OMG...did I really just say that...it's almost blasphemous....whisper...whisper...)
To aggregate collect the dark forces of liberal views in the same manner as collecting the mostly light forces of conservative views is to collect the voices of the common man. The little guy who is spending his or her time seeking a way to stand up and strengthen their own version of America.
Bit of wisdom in the words of Robert Fulgham below.
If only, if only....our politicians aiming at 2012 would move out of their comfort zone and stop sanitizing their message by dominating social media with only what they feel they want repeated.
Really. It's OK. Step down off the curb and into traffic.
Just remember that it's best to hold hands and stick together.
Here's to the little guy.
Let freedom ring.
Robert Fugham:
"Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat. Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK . Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.
Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."
2 comments:
My apologies for having been gone so long, yon wee lass.
I've been out of country.
The blog is looking good and I need to tell you that you've picked up some interesting followers out here on the east coast. Let us suffice to say that you are noticed.
In my thoughts, dear girl.
Your call and hearing your voice was wonderful, my friend.
As far as your wandering through the 'dark side' of conservatism, remember to stay to the light at the end of the tunnel.
Let them follow, watch and learn.
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