My friend Blake sent me this clip today and I felt such a kinship to this guy. When I watch him chase his line of thoughts and attempt to enunciate them and the feigned/pained expressions of the others on the set it reminds me of watching myself try to explain new medias to certain educators and politicians. Everything seems so obvious to this poor guy that he can't even give energy to an explanation.
I feel his pain.
We shouldn't have to spell it out to our leaders. They should know. That's the role of leaders. To know. If they don't know, they have the means by which to communicate and seek out those who do.
John Lennon said "Well I tell them there are no problems, only solutions."
So why are our leaders not seing these solutions?
Perhaps they:
a.) are not capable of processing available information in an orderly fashion
b.) are victimized by a self-imposed adherence to a system of circular logic
c.) are insulated from reality due to entire adult life in politics
d.) are more concerned with special interests than greater good
e.) all of the above and then some
The image below is the document to which I return when I lose focus- I call it my agenda swiff. Swiff being the geek-speak name of the *.swf (shock wave flash) file extension-- one of the outputs of flash animation software. I want this document to serve as a reference point for future video conversations on anthro.tv
If you, or someone you know is interested in being in a conversation please contact me at the aforementioned site or give me shout in the comments.
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