the ground

[the mingo]

the forest no longer contains
the voice of the drums of
the old ones
but their children have passed into
the ones who came to rule
and they know how to track the dollar bills
& watch the skies & do more than survive
we are entire and our voice
is still the voice of
the ground

[neologistic]

the forests no longer arrange
the poise of when it comes undone..
(as it wasn't ever meant to be opened)
safeguards and safeguards shout throughout the lines
but we fought them back to their shields, land ho
now we've more to deal with than we'd stayed in the trees
but the forest is poetic, nonjudicially
we are as we've ever been
just a drop of sound

[saw]

it seems each generation laments losing the last one, I think because progress has always been over hyped as the end-all......progress to many in charge is material gains, their only measurement that we are on the right track....morally we are in decline, but hey at least we have an effective Congress...oops...my bad

[neologistic]

Something seems different this time. I think we are finally exploring selfless areas of advancement in our species. Open source technology and practices is essentially about sharing things for free because they are useful to others, and the mighty grip of industries' hands has been wrestled free from the responsibility and role of creating and maintaining the environment and tools of which we proceed. Now, we make the programs and the media. Greed may always be there, and other elements of the human condition may always be present, but the tides are changing in that change is no longer going to be dictated in such a monopolostic term by the powers that be, now you don't have to have a good idea and know how and bend to the whims of those with the financial backing to get your idea off the ground, you just need the idea and the know how. If you can build an app, you've got it made. And Google is very close to releasing AppInventor for general use, expect it to become widely used and very user friendly, fully open source, capable of creating custom tools. They also just opened a mobile learning center at MIT, with goals to progress open source full steam ahead. 50 years ago, it wouldn't have been quite so easy to attempt to create a widely used learning tool with little to no investment, nor would it even have likely been pursued with little to no profit promised. 500 years ago? Forget about it. This is our Renaissance, we are leaving the Age of Treason and progressing towards true evolution where all have access to the tools to help our species "progress" and all have access to the tools to help change what our species views as "progress".. technology be damned, that's not the point, I'll go twirl a ribbon in the wind the rest of my years if it's all about technology, but it isn't. Technology is just a tool, and some actions show humanity using that tool poorly, but open source technology and practices is one usage of technology that I think is proving we still have a chance at proving ourselves worth having been created before a meteor wipes us forgotten

[theirishsea]

neologistic, I hope you are right but I still see the forces of evil----Monsanto, etc.----gumming up the works. Perhaps there is never a clear winner until the end of history & history will end only after the last human perishes. Fukiyama(sp?)'s book title was an absurdity the day the title was coined.

Neo. I hope your optimism prevails.
Mingo, your poem is interesting----and especially the ending. I think I know what you mean----or---I get a meaning from it----the dead, the real, the culture of the past is still alive but changed, mutated to and by the new circumstances.

[neologistic]

Yeah, I'm not much for neoconservatism. I think probably someone like Terry Pratchett or Gene Roddenberry would have had better success creating a truly altruistic and civilized government system. Eff Monsanto up its globally viking arse, raping pillaging and burning Mother Nature..

[Kailashana]

After my own heart, are you?

on another site, this is my signature line: "Only when you have a duty linked to a responsibility you will act for the common good." Vandana Shiva

I'm sure you are familiar with her. If not there's plenty to google.

~A

[neologistic]

The problem with that is we're all too self-blind, self-unaware, luxuriously occupied, over analytic for all the wrong reasons, under analytic for all the wrong reasons, stuffed up each other's posteriors on Facebook that the subjective definitions of "responsibility" and "duty" and even "good" are attributed en masse by flocks of over indulgent zombies. Not calling anyone here a zombie. Just saying, one creature's duty is another's excrement.. e.g., the spanish inquisition, "duty" to god, "responsibility" to hold heathens accountable, "common good" = spreading the faith, etc, but few agree nowadays the Inquisition was anything even remotely good. sorry to bring up the spanish inquisition, nobody expects the spanish inquisition