Dear friends – readers who surf the web: this week, is a celebration to the internet for me, for us…

Ploff reached and surpassed the 5000 “likes” and it triggers my emotions entirely.

If you take aside the trivial, banal, phony, shallow applications social networks have, I cannot deny that Facebook is a tool that emanates, recreates, and materializes collective consciousness worldwide.

Think about this, the news at the TV, journalism in general… are they really informing us on the thing we really want to know? Do they tell us the moves we need to make in order to change the system?

It is fine to know about the quantity of rapes, murders, acts of corruption, theft, frauds in every place every time… But, what about the news on independent actions which emerge here and there trying to improve the environment? And what about the never ending noble actions taken forward by all the NGO’s around the world? Why can’t we feel those good vibes, instead of being immersed in terror any time we turn on the TV?

Yesterdays, when I got back from work, I nourished myself both cultural and spiritually by not turning on the TV and spending half an hour checking what my friends where talking about on Facebook. And I felt a flow of social/environmental information coming from everyone which left me thinking…

I stumbled upon several images:

Could it be that the real news report is to connect myself to the collective consciousness, rather than turning on the TV and watching 5% of what is really happening?

I was thinking… if we already have video cams incorporated in our cell phones, why we only see how it hails in that town far away over there?

– Look! How cute those countrymen, now they can film…

– Holly Molly! Look how it hails!

Is there anybody who has already filmed cases of labor exploitation, child prostitution, corruption? Why do we not see those films?

And while I think on this, Internet keeps on invading me with stuff that leaves me thinking…

A recompilation of images showing several types of bikes; an infographic showing the tallest mountain to the deepest ocean trench; 5 movies which reveal global conspirations; an article on what has Río+20 left us…

All on Internet, and I wanted to celebrate it. Cheers!

Brian Longstaff.-

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