You may feel sometimes that you are living in a society of lemmings, heading straight for the cliff at full speed. And many are. But always bear in mind that you doing what you are doing does count. You are an example. What you do does matter. Some people are aware enough to observe what you are doing and will change as a result of it.
Happiness
Do the best you can at improving yourself to be the person you like best. You’ll never be without a friend if you are great company to be with.
Non Standard Minds
Monsanto earnings fall 34% after a year of global protests
Keep up the pressure people!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/07/monsanto-earnings-fall-corn-south-america-genetically-modified-food
We Do Not Have To Agree On Everything
Our Purpose Involves Helping Others
But this isn’t bad…
Grant Beingness
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Explains The Structure Of Stories
Writers, here’s a little fun Thursday lunchtime activity for you. Think about the story you’re currently working on/avoiding. What shape does it take? Get a pen and some paper and trace it out. On the axis of good fortune versus ill fortune, where do your characters tend to fall?
Kurt Vonnegut was born 99 years ago today, so it’s high time we revisit one of his best craft lectures. In it, he breaks down his taxonomy of storytelling. But none of this “beginning → rising action → climax → falling action → resolution” crap that we learn in middle school. He begins: “Stories have very simple shapes, ones that computers can understand.” And then he goes on to do a little literary stand-up comedy, tracing the story arc of Hamlet, The Metamorphosis, and even Cinderella. Not by plot, but by the feelings of the characters we follow. For Kurt Vonnegut, the true movement of a story lays in a character’s happiness.
If you have 17 minutes to spare today, I recommend you give it a watch and maybe plot your own happiness, too. In fact, tag yourself. (We’re Kafka’s cockroach.)
Here’s Why You Should Convert Your Music To 432 Hz – Educate Inspire Change
Some interesting thoughts for musicians!
http://educateinspirechange.org/science-technology/heres-convert-music-432-hz/
Astroturf: the Black Art of Deceit Exposed
This talk is a real eye-opener. Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson shows how fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests and known by the cute epithet “astroturf”, manipulate and distort media messages. Some of the most egregious exponents of this black art of deceit are – you guessed it – certain pharmaceutical corporations. Attkinson’s revelations leave Wikipedia’s credibility utterly shredded as she exposes what is essentially a criminal operation designed to con, intimidate, ruin and deceive. This is an education no-one should miss, not least because she gives you simple strategies for seeing through it and sifting fact from fiction.
http://www.goforwardtogether.com/2015/03/17/astroturf-the-black-art-of-deceit-exposed/