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On Seattle: Me to WE is a Rallying Cry For 2020
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is a sign of where things can go if we take back our power
Marooned in central Japan, jobless and meandering through my days, it’s easy for me to get lost in the Information Age and, as Pink Floyd sang in the year of my birth, “find, all those years have got beyond, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.”
But if ever there was a year that seemed like a collective starting gun, 2020 is it. Right on down to the visionary aspect of those numbers — 20/20 vision, how I miss thee! — 2020 kicked off with a bang and it seems like it could go just about anywhere right now.
Every day, another angle develops, another avenue to explore and, well, this can feel downright scary because one thing we humans like is something solid to hold onto.
And with disinformation, fake news, propaganda and outright lies filling the skies of our ever-connected noosphere, well, be mindful of your choice.
I speak from experience, having fallen down many rabbit holes, only to wake up in something much worse than a cognitive Kansas, but fortunately, there’s airships a-plenty in the Information Age, which leads me almost back to where I started: Seattle, just up the road from where I…
