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I have had my fill of all the news about Tunisia and Egypt for a while. The Sunday morning TV pundits didn't talk about much else. Besides, today they seemed more obvious than usual that the professional journalists were attempting to manipulate the politicians they interviewed. I don't trust the fourth estate too much anymore. They got a history of payola that seem suspicious.
That history of the press being paid off to represent certain partisan views from either side of the aisle might be the reason for the popularity of Twitter and Facebook. People wanna know what's going on according to the news participants instead of the professionals in such affairs. Some recognize the press has been paid off and want a more reliable version of the truth.
The mideast confrontations may actually be more about how the internet provides more reliable information. Wikileaks is an example of this trend. Tonight on Sixty Minutes Julius Assange said he got started when he was thirteen years old and learned to program computers. Whatever the rightness or wrongness of those secrets being exposed, it still forces those involved to be more concerned with security on all sorts of levels.
Security on the internet seems like a lost cause. Some newly flushed thirteen year old in some third-world country will attempt to establish his newly-found power to procreate as the modus operandi of what a real man can do to bring down the establishment to demonstrate his place in the world of man.
Like in Egypt, the government can shut down the internet, but some thirteen year old kid like Assange will make a name for himself by finding a workaround. Amateur reporters, especially on the internet, are beginning to have a history too.
The story of evolution and thus mankind rotates around the ability to procreate, and to the extremes it's neophytes are willing to use the associated power of it to apply to any obstacle they encounter. It's their way into the big time, but from the perspective of a child. No blame.
With six billion people on earth, presently, if not more, then there is a constant supply of young people coming into the event horizon of puberty seeking change as they simultaneously turn inward, and people getting older people wanting things to stay the sa-me.
Music students are constantly reminded that to make an omelet you gotta crack some eggs. The bright new composers always break the rules by which their predecessors created the new standards they attempt to surpass. The Chinese have a classical book about change called the I Ching. If change is inevitable, then it seems prudent to learn how to cope with it as best one can.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
