His conclusions are insightful, but I feel they are not exactly on the money. He concedes that social cohesion might have something to with the degree of education — but I disagree on that point.

In my opinion 99% of the disintegration in social cohesion is simply down to no longer believing in capitalist propaganda, and the disintegration that is occuring is largely an indication that employment is no longer a viable path for most people — whether educated or not.

The largest failure of economic policy continues to be an over-emphasis on employment.

The other quote had an equally significant impact on me — it was attributed to Rainer Maria Rilke:

Du musst dein Ändern leben.

That’s hard to translate — it’s a play on words that doesn’t work so well when it’s translated into English.

Nonetheless, I wish Sarah Lacy the best of luck and success with her new project — whether that means remaining independent or becoming socially connected (much like the social network of Pando trees she dreamt about when dreaming about the project in the first place).

This is an Anonymous message from the Global revolution to politicians dictators and plutocrats all over the planet. Surprised by the global disobedience? Let us explain to you your delicate situation.

Tens of Thousands of years ago, human beings began to evolve. Since then, our species has walked a dark and bloody road, which isolated people condemned to live in fear caused by ignorance.

Knowledge, ethics and technological development have always been conditioned by the elite and their wars, which as in the Orwellian metaphor, have done nothing more than perpetuate vertical and obscurantist social schemes.

We have arrived to the 21st Century of our era, after two World Wars, endorsing the possibility of nuclear conflict with assured mutual destruction. Their so-called economists and intellectuals, having announced that it was “the end of the story”, it seemed, more than ever, that looking for a fairer order was meaningless.

Thinking that they had slowed our rational development enough, they let us carry on with a progress model whose sole objective was never more than to make them even richer and more powerful.

However, they did not consider that the real human spirit refuses to bow, always. While they believed they were overcoming us by using economic shocks, our species has evolved in a new manner. Using only the powers of culture and freedom, we have reused those technological resources that were born of our genius and that were only provided to us with consumerist intentions.

So we have updated, improved and immunized our force operations and effectiveness. We absorb their own tactics techniques and power of persuasion to form our own means dreams and challenges.

Today, the revolution is spreading around the planet as a challenge to their oppression and they shamelessly try to shut down our freedom of expression. Finally, information has reached critical mass, exploding in a melting-pot of voices whose new wishes and needs can’t be covered by their old paradigm.

Now, physically and digitally interconnected, we form a huge collective consciousness. Maybe their corporate media silences what is happening but they can not fool us anymore.

They can temporarily stop some points but the process will continue unstoppable and ever-changing. Now It doesn’t matter which measures they take for trying to counteract us. The more violence censorship and obstacles they put in our way, the more they expose their weakness.

From every place on the Earth, with different ideas and from different conditions, women and men have always existed and always will exist who oppose the pretends of undemocratic and unjust governments. After millenniums of suffering, our species has stood up, and nothing will ever be the same. Their totalitarian game is ending.

But friends, the story hasn’t ended. This is where it begins. We’ll take the streets and Occupy. Change is happening. The people should never fear the government. The government should fear the people. We are the people. We are the only system.

We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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For those of you who still aren’t clued in: Google = 99 + 44/100% SPAM!

Question: Is there — perhaps — an inverse relationship between the trust in media sources and the size of the media company? Take a look at my reasoning behind this question.

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Note that this diagram shows that, overall, the proportion of “Informed Public” that “Trust a Great Deal” at least one of these four kinds of media increased from 72% to 88% (a rise of over 22%). The only one of the four media types that had a significant above-average increase in this regard was the “Social Media” label. Also, note that “social media” still remains an unidentified / undefined term. Finally, it would be very interesting to know what other kinds of “media” people trust and/or distrust — for example: Mothers? Next-door-neighbors? Schoolteachers? College professors? Cashiers? Hairstylists? …?

Note that Ragan also reported wide variation across countries:

In the U.S., trust in all media sources rose, with major jumps in the perceived trustworthiness of television, radio, and newspapers as sources of information about a company (by 23, 13, and 11 points, respectively).  In the U.K., those same sources increased (by 25, 17, and 17 points, respectively).  By contrast, in France and Germany, trust in television news and newspapers fell by ten or more points.

China saw double-digit decreases in television as a trusted source, plunging from 74 to 43 percent. Newspapers in that country didn’t fare well either (down by 20 points to 34 percent). But trust in social media jumped: micro-blogging sites and social-networking sites went from virtual distrust at just one percent each to being greatly trusted by a quarter (25 percent) and 21 percent, respectively—a likely reflection of the rapid growth in social media usage within China. At the end of 2010, Weibo (the Twitter equivalent) had 60 million users. By the end of 2011, 310 million users were on Weibo, which broke major news stories, including the corruption of the Red Cross and a high-speed train crash.

My hunch is that there is an inverse relationship between the trust in media sources and the (perceived) size of the media company (whether measured in number of employees or in the amount of capital invested).

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