We Were Making The First Step Out

We Need A Game Plan To Deploy It Very Quickly To Both Move The Economy Forward And Create The New Businesses And Jobs, And Address Climate Change. It's A Pretty Big Task. Pretty Challenging.

With The Communication Internet, Whole Industries Have Been Disrupted. You're In The Publishing Industry, You Understand That. Before, We Had Newspapers, Magazines - Now You're On The Web. I'm In Book Publishing. I Don't Have To Tell You What's Happened To Us. Television Has Taken A Hit. The Music Industry. But, Thousands Of New Businesses Have Emerged On This New Communication Revolution Platform. Not Just Google, Facebook, And Twitter. There Are Thousands Of Operations. Businesses That Are Doing The Platforms, The Apps. They're Mining The Big Data. They're Creating The Connections.

The Interesting Thing Is, While We Die Of Diseases Of Affluence From Eating All These Fatty Meats, Our Poor Brethren In The Developing World Die Of Diseases Of Poverty, Because The Land Is Not Used Now To Grow Food Grain For Their Families.

Facebook's A Wonderful, Incredible Way To Bring Humanity Together. They've Brought Together 2 Billion People In The Largest Fictional Family In History. So Young People Are Starting To Empathize With Each Other Through Facebook Across The Globe. This Is Wonderful. However, When Everyone Needs Facebook Because It's So Successful That Everyone's On It, Then It Starts To Look Like A Global Public Utility, A Public Good. Same With Amazon.

Humanity Cannot Afford To Acknowledge All Of The Blood That It Spills And The Destruction It Inflicts On The World In Its Effort To Perpetuate Itself. Desacralization Is A Process That Allows Us To Sever Any Relationship We Might Feel To Other Living Things. By Draining The Aliveness Out Of Things, We Can Pretend That Our Control And Manipulation Are Of Little Consequence. Man The Trapper Becomes Man The Taxidermist, Disemboweling Nature Of Its Spontaneity And Movement, And Stuffing It With A Leaden Inanimateness.