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"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas". A. Whitney Griswold

Blogging is free is a simple idea. It is people and communities sharing experiences and ideas on the internet. The internet is self-evidently just another way of communicating - and how well we do that is really down to how much we want to connect with other people. Big business, financial institutions and governments have already saturated mass communication with their priorities, better known as marketing and propoganda. As Noam Chomsky said "propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." Like a frog being boiled in water we seem to be fulfilling Dresden James's prediction that "the ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."

"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion." Judge Dalzell.

Many now believe that the world presented to us daily by newspapers and politicians isn't even close to a picture of the real world at all. Whereas the truth presented by individuals writing and speaking about their own communities and experiences has the potential to be more meaningful and valuable to us. Stating the obvious? "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men". George Orwell

Leaving our society in the hands of other people, particularly those who essentially use it and us for profit, is not working. Societies are becoming poorer and less equal by the day, across the world. And the only real thing is for people to start building again from where they are. Building communities, friendships, supporting one another - all that brotherly love and peace stuff we were persuaded meant so little.

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