Tech stocks still rule, Super Bowl still sucks

Like the poster says (at top, right): DEFying convention; DEFining a new generation.

When you own the Big Mouth, of course you're going to hype yourself when you're rotten and losing it. That's a big pile of crap about such great ratings for the Super Bowl in my opinion.

Not that there isn't a massive 'network effect' that takes place in society, don't get me wrong there about the power of the medium: quite possibly, CBS's new Terminator-based television series has already prompted its share of school gun violence by the looks of the timing of events. Well, at the least it sure didn't help any! But, if you want to claim such success hosting a football game, why don't you pursue the same notoriety on the next absurdly-insane school shooting gallery scene? The resemblances are uncanny, don't you think?

Or, gee, can we please have another cop violence show to watch as there's not nearly enough crime going on outside the entertainment industry that I really crave more! Prime-Time Crime and Prison Overload: any correlation? Just wondering.

How can a visually astute bunch of professionals not know the effects of feeding images (called "impression management" in photographic and psychological arts) of gun-barrel views to anyone's mind, let alone just a bunch of stressed-out people looking to kick back and relax? When guns are going off for real in this world with such frequency, you can' t just sit back and take no responsibility for joining the promo and treating them like waving around a toothbrush. Even if you're not responsible for all the blame.

And related in parallel, stock prices we are seeing are about as realistic as the talent of a record-company pop star. It's all fantasy. It's all mind-play. It's all deception by those who had been controlling our lives for all too long and are in the midst of, uncontrollably, losing this control. Maybe if you're living in a bygone era, why would you value the future anyway? You'd more likely devalue it and hype your dwindling resources.

What will happen when people begin to actually realize consciously that they don't need even half of what they think they do, when they realize they're in a self-created, situational sandbox with imaginary walls? Drop the fear, the walls disappear...

You'll be getting the gentle tap on the shoulder soon, all those who sold us out, as what has crept up behind you (without your wanting to acknowledge it, lest you be able to go on raking us over the coals) is about to level the field for the good of humanity and beyond. This is last call, it's starting to look like, and last chance to turn around and do something good, or else nice knowing you... (well, honestly, it really wasn't that nice). With or without you, a better world awaits us around the corner.

Think With Your Heart

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© John Alphonse

Recent research in biology points to findings that our thoughts actually originate in the heart organ, and that the brain is actually a go-between, or filter, for our thoughts. But like any go-between it is confronted with the potential to alter the transaction with its own bias or intention, oftentimes favoring stimulation/gratification over appropriate non-participation, omission or compassion. The heart knows the right answers, but the brain steps in, and in its process of translating the heart's intent, is in a position to possibly alter the body's response to the situation. So I think it's a a good idea that we think with our hearts, and trust in those feelings as true thoughts, unaltered by the chemicals of the brain. By doing this, I believe the level of good in the world will increase immediately, as a result of the contentment brought about by us making better decisions.

http://thenewmedicine.org/timeline/egyptian_physicians

Especially now, with so many toxins in the air, food and water chain - and apparently from the commercials every other person (or three of five) on some sort of mind/mood-stabilizing prescribed pill company potion, whether they want to be or not based on that water stream aspect - brain chemistry is not such a pure science, or substance. Granted, the heart's purity on a meatspace level is itself a relative condition in our environment, but the signal it receives at its source renders all natural impedance insignificant, in an electrical sense.

Compassion has no regrets. Think about thinking compassionately. Think about having no regrets!

Google, Yahoo, etc: Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is

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© John Alphonse

Educate from within if you are going to concede to censorship from without. If companies are willing to overlook human rights violations in dealing with corporations and governments alike, for a determined "greater good" in a competitive market, then wouldn't the logical end result of this concession be some sort of contribution to a greater exposure of and education on these censored subjects outside the borders of jurisdiction of these "gag agreements"? Isn't anything short of this practically "aiding and abetting" injustice, or misinformation at least? Voluntarily, would it strike these influential companies to apply some sort of adaptation of the "pollution credits" technique in helping to clear the waters of a Great Diked Truth (Great Wall pun initially unintended) being disseminated ultimately through American business channels? We can call them "Information Pollution Credits" measured in man-hours of lecture algorithmically spun over number of attendees/web viewers/water-cooler mentions.

For starters, maybe companies making censorship concessions for business could create an awareness among their own with some in-house lectures on these subjects censored from certain foreign affiliated sites. Why not educate the truth about Falun Gong and the Dalai Llama directly to employees of an influential corporation wielding an influential medium so as to counteract these concessions on freedom of information elsewhere? The exponential effect outside China would seem to produce more clear water than murk at that point, numbers-wise. The censorship would eventually become moot by default, displacing the negative by multiplying the positive...

It's due time that for-profit business put its mouth where its money is, meaning that, if profiting from an institution of suppression, have the integrity to advocate for justice on behalf of those who aren't in a position to do so, and use the limelight and the power of money not to favor one cause or idea over another, but to contribute to leveling the playing field with equal access to information for all.

Is doing nothing a better idea? How long can an entity turn a profit and turn its back, and still be an entity?

Super Bowl "Super Wait" is what killed old media

Super Bowl Blur: Two weeks wait, three hours of hype, half asleep by kickoff.

Why will NASDAQ rule in the coming years? Tech knows that time waits for no one, and it waits even less as every year passes.

Meanwhile, Old Man Media still runs a governor on the Super Bowl show and milks it dry come game time. Old money jumped head first onto the web finally - but somehow forgot to take off its lead shoes. How are you going to fly in the web culture by expecting your Edzel to keep up with a Porsche? And how does one adopt a new tack on the web yet allow the mother ship to stay its course? It doesn't make sense, abandoning a steerable ship that is headed toward an iceberg but not there yet. But thanks!

Nobody likes waiting two weeks to play the Super Bowl. Not the fans, not the players, not the coaches, not the ticket sellers probably. Who does? Are you out spending money all week on chips and six packs and new cars and televisions because you're warming up for some distant game day in FEBRUARY? Are you looking for media updates daily? Are you wondering what players are doing to keep from going out of their minds waiting 14 days to finish the championship?

Who in this day and age really cares about the game half as much two weeks after the conference championships? Does the NFL even believe they have any fans under 30? Or have they already cashed out and conceded that the league disbands in a decade as more and more of its audience loses its sight and hearing?

Two weeks for the Super Bowl? I can't wait for this blog post to upload and you want me to keep my interest for 14 days about the most lopsided, advertising-orchestrated event in all of sports? I started drinking already around two, and by kickoff I'll be starving and busy stuffing my face to pay much attention to the t.v. Then, probably about halftime, I'll be ready to take a nap. Forget Tivo, I'll check out the highlights on YouTube sometime next week if I think of it after yet another week passes...