• Baby Boomers,  Economic Equality (A Goal),  Management,  Philosophy

    Internet Freedom or Danger?

    June 12, 2020

    Johanna BaynardJun 4 · 3 min read

    We continue to get so many opinion pieces on the internet. Everyone wants to weigh in on what the World Wide Web is doing to us. I read today about TikTok, I read about Youtube, I read about Instagram and Twitter.

    So much of what I read was about how the internet is changing us — but not for the better. Lately I have read a lot about politicizing the Internet. There are loud and compelling complaints about Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram and now TikTok.

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    I’ll never forget years ago; I was standing in the hallway of a convention center complaining loudly about the lack of service and the lack of coffee. I was the hostess of the event and I was dealing with a broken agreement. One of my trainers asked me “so do you really think this hotel should do things your way?” That put me in check for a second and he continued with “do you believe that the world should act according to your rules?” It was food for thought and it made me think hard.

    I never did get coffee that day, but I did learn the lesson of my frustration. If I want to live more peacefully, I’ll have to accept that people don’t always do what they say and things never go just right when you’re planning a huge event, or any event, for that matter.

    It is this conversation that I think about when I read articles about the Internet. From the beginning, when my colleagues were complaining about texting, I would always respond differently. Colleague “my kid is always on his phone, he won’t stop texting”, Me “he’s learning how to read quickly and how to spell, all good”.

    What I find interesting is that so many believe that the Internet should be controlled. Even the Facebook Staff.

    First, I don’t believe the Internet is controllable. That is what is so amazing about it. The Internet has given those without a voice, a real voice: including a place to meet and a place to talk and all online! Secondly, how will 7 billion people ever come to any agreement about the way that the internet “should” be? Yes, no and maybe.

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    We the people have responsibility for what we understand, we cannot pass that responsibility to another.

    Right now, Trump is trying to change the narrative about who he is and what he stands for.

    Trump is going after those who disagree with him.

    Imagine a world where there was only one story: Trump’s.

    I would even go back to my earlier conversation. That is, that the world won’t go the way that you want it to go. If you want peacefulness, accept the mess. Fifteen years ago, not any of this was possible and now it’s here. Just Imagine where we are going…

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  • Economic Equality (A Goal),  World Affairs

    Trump Keeps Going and No One Stops Him

    June 4, 2020

    Everything I read, no matter what the source, discusses Mr. Trump’s madness. He continually rejects common goodness and concern for Americans. And yet, many follow his directions and many even defend him. I’m not sure I understand this. Over and over again, this man claims American headlines and keeps his name in front of Americans. I cannot identify any reason why Trump is in the headlines.

    In the meantime, he has behaved so badly, that no other person known, could survive the press associated with his bad behavior. How has he survived? Any other public figure would be condemned, rejected and forgotten about. Given all of his bad behavior and the condemnation of millions all over the world: Who follows his direction? Who does his bidding?

    Let’s address Trump’s latest controversy. Trump decides (with the help of outraged aides) that he wants to visit the Episcopal church across the street of the White House. In order to do this, peaceful protestors have to be removed from the area that Trump wants to walk to and pose for a picture.

    Who decides that it is okay to disperse the peaceful protestors with the use of violence, flash grenades and tear gas (Bill Barr)? Then, who, who would actually do this? Who would throw tear gas and a flash grenade into a crowd of peaceful protestors? The curfew was passed, and that curfew is possibly what gave the brutes an excuse for violence.

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    If you are an American soldier it is against the law to raise a weapon on an American. If you are an American policeperson, it is against the law to use a weapon except in defense of yours or another’s life.

    People follow this madman’s orders, preferences, dictates, etc. suggestions. Why, who, how?

    Madness: no one believes that Trump is a spiritual man. No one believes that he knows what is inside a Bible. There he stands in front of the Episcopal church with a Bible in the hand. No one has been able to give us a hint of what the point was of that entire exercise.

    The police dispersed peaceful protestors with violence, then Trump was staged with a Bible in front of a church. What was the point? Who followed his orders? Who made the orders? Why? Madman.

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  • Economic Equality (A Goal),  World Affairs

    Hey White Folks, Hey Black Folks, You’ve Got the Wrong Bad Guy

    June 2, 2020

    The wealthy in this country have been working with your legislator to keep you poor, no matter what you do.

    Every single inequality can be defined with money. Money is the great equalizer.

    We’ve been placated for a long time and each time, we the American people, gave to peace, we lost our dignity. Now we must take it all back.

    You have a role and you have power in the coming Revolution, but it’s not the role you may think.

    We gave our power away. It is our time to simply take it back.

    Without Violence — we take our power back, in the same way that our power was taken from us. We change our legislators. We change our laws. We commit ourselves to economic equality.

    Banning together is a number one priority: equality, in every way, for every human.

    Shared Values:

    Economic Equality — human beings must share all resources with each other.

    How do we get to it without violence, hatred and anger?

    1. Ban Together

    2. Organize, agree on specific measurable goals.

    a. spend 5–50 days working on campaigns to ensure the November elections of Progressives.

    b. all workers strike from McDonald’s for 2 days, until the minimum wage is increased to 17.00 per hour

    3. Communicate with each other and support each other’s efforts.

    4. Scream power to the elite.

    5. We are not here to fight, we are here to make right.

    For you who work for the government: every chance you get, every request that is made for the good of another, use all of your power to give to the good of others.

    1. Give food stamps, give support and give aid.

    2. Every wounded person in your care, will not fear you because they see and feel your compassion.

    3. Interrupt when others are injuring humans. Call out when behavior injures others.

    4. Make grants to all that it is possible to do so.

    5. No blame necessary, only change.

    For you in poverty-stricken communities, power is in numbers, striking is very effective, coming together in numbers is powerful. We have to change the story.

    Make everything you do count for the Revolution:

    1. Vote for the progressive candidate and then keep that candidate accountable.

    2. Workers’ Unions have been effective for keeping workers safe and paid well.

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    3. Whatever you do, stay strong: No is not an answer.

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