I am willing to bet that there is a group of radicals huddled up in a cave somewhere with half-eaten cans of beans muttering to one another "see...we were right!".
According to them, the horrible earthquake in China today, the tragic storm in Burma, and the financial calamities on Wall Street are all part of the same massive scheme...
And they are right! Only the scheme is wrong.
One of the things I noticed today as news of the horrors surrounding the earthquake in China started hitting my Twitter-stream a few minutes after it happened is that it is pretty amazing how fast news travels nowadays. It is only recently with services like Twitter and blogging before it that we have started to utilize this sweet tool called the Internet to its fullest potential.
So, I think the crazy dudes watching the TV screen are witnessing something revolutionary, just they are like those in Plato's cave watching shadows. You and I, reading these words together on these devices and sharing them with "strangers" half-way around the World - we are outside in the light making that revolution the great thing it is.
Now we need to figure out how to use it to help our friends in China, Burma and elsewhere. Then maybe we can even convince those dudes to get out of the cave.
Monday, May 12, 2008
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