GOOD & EVIL HACKERS

Capitalist, Communist, Oligarchy, and Dictatorship governments around the world 

all react to their good citizens seeking justice and truth 

in the exact same way: CRUSH THEM. 

Here is only one example....

"HACKER WHO EXPOSED VIOLENT SEX CRIME 

CAN GET LONGER JAIL SENTENCE THAN 

CONVICTED RAPISTS." 

The U.S. Department of Justice should be thanking 

Deric Lostutter (the hacker), not imprisoning him.

Demand that they stop prosecution of Deric Lostutter.

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/steubenville_lostutter

COMMUNICATION

有錢人這樣想

WOMAN MEDIA EXPLORER & ADVENTURER

Barbara Walters, the best (and most famous) television news interviewer, who broke through the concrete wall that did not allow women in TV news (except sexy weather "girls"), who has been on TV continously since 1961, announced her retirement by HER choice, in 2014.....She has been an indelible part of the American cultural experience for 52 years, since I was a boy. Barbara could get anyone to talk openly and truthfully on camera, even cry, because they trusted her. (Documentary filmmakers, journalists, and writers take note!) She interviewed EVERY U.S. President, major world leader, and superstar in entertainment and the arts....Her retirement is a major emotional and professional loss, as she is irreplaceable.

Barbara Walters, age 83, looks 63, sharp as 23.

Fidel Castro personally drove Barbara around Havana in his Jeep.

"LIKE"

Sometimes I "LIKE" a photo but not the words, sometimes the sentiments but not the illustration, sometimes the larger ideas but not the actual post. Sometimes I like the person who posted it, or want to offer my morale support to someone I don't know. Sometimes my finger slips.....There is no way to know what "LIKE" means on Facebook, so it is only a quickie massage of the ego, not a fulfilling meal. Facebook promises communication, but only offers the thinnest surface image of communication, and actually prevents real communication....Facebook is a potentially great concept and invention to soothe loneliness, but it's still in its most primitive stage, leaving the human spirit feel even lonelier.

[Painting by 黃安祖Andrew詩畫家, on Facebook]

FACEBOOK

The Facebook that I see has a flood of streaming photos with cute girls and boys of all ages and persuasions, stunning CUs of flowers and nature, thousands of smiling classmates posing with V-fingers or horror movie faces, a few soft-core effective body photos, political pro-human/anti-evil protests, serious truthful international news from the Colonialist BBC and Muslim TV station, pro-Obama public relations that I want to believe (with the instinctive hateful anti-Obama comments), lots of YouTube videos interesting and not, really funny sites with all levels of humor and social satire, delicious food food food, photos of patterns and of nothing that are real art, graffiti and official museum art, insightful film reviews, a few ads for things I don't use or don't like or can't afford, endless good-feeling sayings and advice that no one who is human can ever follow.

This is my Facebook....hundreds of friends I never meet, and cannot touch with my hands, brain, heart, or spirit. This is Communication in the 21st Century. I prefer the 20th Century, or 18th, or 15th..... except I probably would have died of plague, starvation, war, or torture by now, and wouldn't have been an artist or teacher creating in relative freedom and security.

I'm naively and deeply disappointed in the Facebook God, but not in the Facebook users.

[Painting by artist Andrew, on Facebook]

DEAR MARGO ®

Margo Howard is (by far) the best, most psychologically astute, mentally healthy "advice" columnist in the international English media. Her wise advice is not always 100% correct, as she is not a mind-reader or God, but it is as close to constructive and useful reality, (not self-help dogma or nice-sounding politically-correct platitudes), as humanly possible. 

If your newspaper doesn't have it, you can read her column at no charge on the net, from Creators.com [This is not a paid endorsement.]

CHOICES

DIFFERENCES

Everyone dislikes someone. Everyone living in a community dislikes something in the community: the age-condition-size of a home, noise from a barking dog-old A/C-music-TV-arguing-Mahjong, kids, visitors, too old-too big-too expensive cars/trucks/motorcycles/motor scooters, where and how vehicles are parked, trees or no trees, gardens or no gardens, ornaments, flags, decorations, degrees of neatness, unfriendly or too friendly neighbors, gossip-politics-religion-culture. Landlords-management companies-lawyers…..The list of personal likes and dislikes in a community, a country, and the world is infinite.

BEING PRESENT

INTIMACY FATALLY ATTACKED 

The strong, but fading responses against interrupting personal real contact with technological virtual contact is comforting, although it is a losing battle.  The war has already been won, and those who support intimacy are already dinosaur zombies. 

In defiance of the robotization of culture and communication, some rebels still are able to summon the positive energy and courage to resist massive social and planned-obsolescence pressures to spend, update, and boast.