A recent article on the success of the Obama campaign pinpointed its ability to translate internet info into direct on-the-ground action. It was based on two basic technologies, a massive interactive strategic database, similar to a Customer Relations Management system, and constant messaging to well-organized action groups. The action groups were recruited through self-selection on the web, and moved into physical proximity, trained, and charged with making things happen.
That is what I am talking about.
In the wake of blatant, cynical exploitation of the national economy, we get finger pointing and blaming. This is a time for better plans, better ideas, to pitch their tent poles in the rubble of an overbuilt circus.
Response to a fabulous critique of corporatism tends to atomize into a vaguely civil aerosol wafting away from the real provocation of the article.
I obviously need to get to get to know my neighbors, so I can see into their rationales for keeping their decks swept while their retirements swallow their own tails, and their children become servants indentured for life to an info/military complex that puts Eisenhower's shibboleth to shame.
I will work on it. In the meantime, how the hell is anything going to change?
The corollary is that whoever takes action first, seizes the day in a manner that is much harder to undo once its done, than to do in the first place.
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