Language not only describes reality ... Language creates the reality it describes.
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Love this interview with Levar Burton on Building 43 – Communities without Gatekeepers
Broadcast media & commercial communication are one-way conversations bundled with sales messages, actors, branding, and entertainers. Often it is marketing made to look like authentic human interaction.
he goal of most mass media communication is to generate revenue.
When you unpack Broadcast media messaging we find [...]
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With the embarrassing and possibly illegal actions from a small group of Acorn employees, I am compelled to repost these thoughts from the 2008 Presidential Election. I’ve registered several 1000’s of voters in my lifetime. And I never did it for money. I did it because I believed in people and open ended democracy. Even more so today, I remain committed to ideals and [...]
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This is part of what a for-profit healthcare system gets you. Behaviors are always incented to create net proft. That’s expected in business - however when profit is made from reducing cost by denying health care, what that really means is people are Broken.
Here are the 2007 insurance company executive salaries:
ANNUAL COMPENSATION 2007:
* Ronald A. Williams, Chair/ CEO, Aetna Inc., $23,045,834
* [...]
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