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We are living on the savage and disorienting precipice of the digital divide. The razor edge of a fulcrum point in the Information Revolution. We feel connected, but will media connection translate into cooperation that will overcome the problems of the 21st century?
Everyday our world is scoped, shaped, and scaped by an increasing immersion in media experience. We have so much electronic information at our fingertips that we must choose what information to encounter. These daily choices shape the world around us in a selective sight process that is all powerful, omnipresent, yet, so natural we forget that you see what you want to see. From this personalization of information, how do we see the world that we share? The grotesqueness of corporate media has made news dirty business. The youth of the world are turning away from the pillars of television and print to seek their own sources of information and entertainment. To be our own sources. But something is lost when we feel as though the news has nothing to useful offer. What is news? Economics? Politics? War? These all encompass events that affect millions if not billions of people. We often turn away from such topics of import because they are not our choices. They are the stagnant business practices of an industrial age that has no place in the future. This is not simply a us and them situation, age and youth, rich and poor, connected and not. We, the Electronic Global Youth Parade, for all our seeming indifference and disassociation of things past, share many of the values of our parents. Comfort and security. Community and sympathy. Creativity and shared solutions. We, however, will not simply tune back in if the economy swings back. We are riding this wave of the Information Revolution til it strikes rock or reaches shore. Information. News. Media. These are things that color and sharpen the variety of this world and its turmoil. They are also tools of distortion and destruction, long wielded by industrial hierophants who created and control the information infrastructure. The Electronic Global Youth Parade has learned to master these tools and competes daily for the attention of a world eager to learn what is new and exciting. In our rejection of corporate news, however, we cannot forget the salient and crucial elements underlying reporting. In our personalization of information, we must embrace what is personal for every individual: EARTH. This world, our world and what makes it function and sustain life. It is a process that continuously renews itself. So when we ask ourselves, "what is the news today", we should focus our lenses on what makes life possible. Rain may not be exciting for some, but it is news because it nourishes our mother. Flooding in Pakistan may make us cringe and want to turn away, but, it is news because it is a vision of the world to come. Warmer air holds more moisture, lengthening droughts and strengthening rains. This is news, not simply information confined to scientific interest. It is something that we must choose to see--something we must learn to see--in the events unfolding around us. For all our creative power, we cannot control the tide that carries the Information Revolution wave. It has brought us to great heights, allowing us to see farther and wider than ever before, providing more choices than ever before. And it will continue to rise and accelerate, carrying us to incredible heights at dizzying speeds with such momentum that it feels that we have no time to think. Only time to see. That is why our ability to choose what to see, to see what is important, is the first step to truly being connected to the world. Last update: August 30, 2010
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